“When i remember the cassava dough”: memories of wisdowm from labor on Brazilian history

Abstract

The knowledge of work are social constructs, born from the educational process between man and nature, in the expanded reproduction of life. In the development of studies on the memories of family work in flour houses, the important indigenous contributions in the cultivation of cassava and the production of its derivatives in the Brazilian history were investigated. In this sense, this article aims to present the mark of a historical record of the approximation of Europeans with the knowledge of production with cassava - production and products - which would not only provide a milestone of their food adaptation of the so far "visitors", but that would also forge the interest of exploitation of the European for that same tuber, while they also point to the disarticulation of the first base of family work and the exchange of social knowledge, the indigenous labor, which is here understood as traces of the first flour houses existing in the country. The theoretical fundamentals, such as Cascudo (1983, 2004); Pedroza (2014); Algranti (1997); Rodrigues (2012) among others, supported the deprecated discussion. At the end of the contributions, it was found that the commercial interests, although they approach social knowledge through capitalist channels, they are not always able to fully anulate them, because they remain in historical procedurality through resistance in knowing how to do and in the ways of life of men and women in the countryside, perceptible in the existing Flour Houses, the living foundation of the observations presented in the research.