A louça e os modos de vida urbanos na Pelotas oitocentista.

Abstract

The goal of this article is to characterize behavior of consumption of the Pelotas’ city society in the XIX century (1830-1900), through the dishware excavated in the downtown. So, we pretend to characterize the urbanization process, considering its cultural, social e symbolical dimensions. On proposes the methodology of analyzing a sample of dishware, selected considering as criteria the possibility of identification of its form and function, following the classification method that takes as reference the data basis constituted by the Catálogo de Faiança Fina da Residência Conselheiro Maciel. For the analysis, we take as reference the theoretical frame of the processual archaeology, interested in identifying cultural processes responsible for the construction of these evidences. Nevertheless, the interpretation of the data was based in the post-processual archaeology, since our principle interest is to perceive the symbolic, historical and social contexts, related to these cultural processes.