Communitarian practices on development: A perspective from handcraft skills and work

Abstract

The handcrafted practices of a occupation community of the Ninth Region of the Araucania (Chile) are described, through which a notion of the development is built.  Methodologically speaking the Grounded Theory by means of the pattern proposed by Glaser & Strauss (1967) and the software Atlas ti support the analysis of the data was utilized. The results reveal that the handmade practice is a job that is positioned in the tension between the cultural and ancestral rescue of a traditional practice and the requirements of an economy of accumulation and conversion of work in capital. The construction of meanings of the craftsmen in the region is characterized by taking into account alternate subjectivities to the dominant discursive models of development. A proposal of analysis of the occupations is presented, through three analysis axes: the job, the occupation and the knowledge.