Objetos para pensar : o nosso aqui, comprado ali, vindo de lá

Abstract

The present investigation parts of the building popularly called "camelódromo" or Popular Shopping in Cuiabá. Built more than fifteen years ago, this space is a constitutive part of the city while integrates the global flows of movement of goods, more specifically the objects Made in China. Through the proposed ethnographic "near and inside" we made, the ending to beginning, the route taken by these "junk", represented in the text by luck cat or Maneki Neko. Therefore, we assume camelódromo (and all its history and physical constitution) towards Ciudad Del Este, the Paraguayan city widely known by the trade of this type of merchandise and shopping destination of the hawkers in the Popular Shopping in Cuiabá. There we analised closely the flows and transits of these objects, describing in detail the practices that supported the observed reflections on the term "subaltern globalization." Finally, we present the factors that contributed historically to the consolidation of China as a sign of power producing these objects and perform a "biography" of Maneki Neko, with the purpose of discuss where these objects contribute to the understanding of the means by which the act that are outside the hegemonic flows in the contemporary world.