Weaving the city: craftsmen and their way of producing Praça da Sé
Salvador; Praça da Sé; artisans; materials; urban anthropology; production of space; body.
The present work sought to answer the question: how did the craftsmen of Praça da Sé process the space where they work? During the fieldwork, I discovered that it was only possible to answer it after understanding the relationships that artisans establish with their materials. Thus, I propose the category of artisan-making to refer to the way artisans build their works, as well as the category of being-in-the-Sé to think about the way in which artisan-making also constitutes spaces. The relationship between both categories helps us to understand how the city is produced by these worker’s ways