O Ver-o-Peso como complexo de negritude na Amazônia Paraense

Abstract

This article aims to understand and reflect the importance that Ver-o-Peso has for the Amazon in Pará. Considered the largest open-air fair in Latin America and an important fruit and vegetable center in the Amazon, it also remains an ancestral territory that brings together people and goods on a daily basis, being predominantly frequented by black people. The fair is directly linked to the urbanization and growth of the city of Belém during the golden period of the rubber economy, in 19xx, and was built under the enslaved black workforce that continues to this day in the place, through music, dance, cuisine, arts and rituals that transform and propel the Amazonian culture of Pará to all corners of the world. This excerpt is part of my ongoing dissertation, the result of my master's degree, which tells, from a socio-anthropological perspective, the social trajectories of the cattle workers at the Ver-o-Peso fair, the majority of whom are black women and faced difficulties and obstacles during the pandemic. of Covid-19 and the arrival of COP 30 in the capital of Pará. Ver-o-Peso appears as the main and complex actor of the different trajectories represented there, which highlights the ancestral and resistance character of everyone who experiences the day-to-day life of the fair there.