Food in Godmothers and Godfathers Sociability on Agroalimentary Dynamics of Rural Cariri

This article propose to discuss the role of food on neighborhood relations in some rural communities on Cariri, located in the municipalities of Crato, Juazeiro, Barbalha, Aurora and Milagros. The conceptual framework rests on Marcel Mauss theory (2003) and the methodology considers ethnographic research and oral history. The study subjects belonged to 24 families that live on rural zones (called “sitios”), with this profile: women and men between 21 and 93 years, who allowed to follow their daily life on local cooking, as well as the transfer of practices and knowledge on social distribution of food in the community. For it were used photographic records, field notes, semi-estructured interviews and analysis of the narratives. The creatin of a donating food culture on rural communities in Cariri where sociability, the tradition of local customs and neighborhood solidarity, are offered as a part of social process between many godmothers and godfathers, beyond the mechanisms of a capitalist economy. That’s how persists a belief where food is preserved and, at the same time, can innovate the agroalimentary property, in addition to build and reconstruct the regional identity.