Understanding the Body from Practices of Organization: Ethnography of an Artisan Organization

Lara Rezende, Josiane Silva de Oliveira, Euna Cristina Lima Mendes Adorno
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21529/RECADM.2018002

Abstract

The objective of this research was to understand how the body constitutes the practices of organization of an artisan space in the city of Goiás, Goiás.  For this purpose, we carried out a theoretical approach between the concepts of practices and body based on the debates proposed by Michel de Certeau. Ethnography was the research methodology employed involving informal life-story interviews as well as participant observations in an artisanal organization acting in the gastronomic sector, which produces “empadão goiano”. The survey was carried out between the months of August 2015 and February 2016 in Cidade de Goiás, state of Goiás, Brazil. The artisanal organization which is our object of study works with the production of “empadão goiano”, regarded as a typical food in the state of Goiás and it is currently undergoing a process of acknowledgement by the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional [IPHAN – Institute of National Historical and Artistic Heritage] as immaterial and cultural patrimony of Brazil. As a contribution to the Organizational Studies, especially to Practice-based Studies, we understand that the organizational practices are constituted from micro policies of the body in the social daily life, especially regarding the production of the organizational routine.


Keywords

Organizational practices; Body; Artisan organization; Ethnography; Goiás

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