Os sentidos sociais e políticos da banana no maciço da Pedra Branca

Abstract

The present work will deal with an analysis of the discourses regarding the banana of the Stone Massif. The analysis is based on the hypothesis that the oral and written discourses built around the product show us that it is not just bananas that are marketed but that there is a communication about the history of these farmers and that it is not only told at fairs. Thus, as some farmers have achieved a certain notoriety, they give testimonies, tell stories to researchers and journalists, which allows us to trace the trajectory of the banana, but not in its sense of productive chain, in its materiality, but in transactional discourses, in different contexts, by farmers, mediators and consumers. Thus, these discourses will be treated through a theoretical analysis of Pierre Bourdieu, in order to show that the discourses constructed guide the local debate, which characterizes possibilities of action and intervention of the population in the production and consumption of the organic banana of the Pedra Maciço White