O Mercado Central de Montes Claros e o consumo dos bens alimentares: o patrimônio cultural como vetor do desenvolvimento local

Abstract

The Montes Claros Central Market - it`s facilities, its operating dynamics, and the goods found there – is the main object of this Master thesis. The purpose of this thesis is to understand the consumption of food and beverages traded in the Montes Claros Central Market. The intention is to analyse the relation among consumption, heritage, identity and development. The Market in this context represents a place that contains the local cultural heritage, this category is analysed via the gastronomy and the goods traded there. In connection to this, it is via the consumption of food and beverages that the meaning of the ownership of the goods available at the Market will be analysed. Based on these types of consumption, it is intended to analyse the relation between the heritage and the development, if the consumption of cultural goods can be considered as the force behind the local development. The conclusions relevant to this work indicate that to increase the knowledge about a certain subject is necessary to point out their similarities and differences through comparative study. In this sense, the analysis of cultural and symbolic goods as commodities, allowed us a broader understanding of these categories within the context of modernity and its ambivalences.