Um olhar sobre o fazer do ourives em Belo Horizonte MG

Abstract

This master thesis deals with the goldsmith activity in the city of Belo Horizonte - MG, from data and information collected about three situations of jewel-making. On the first situation, a goldsmith who works in a atelier where he creates and executes the jewel, having full control of all the steps of this making. On the second situation, the goldsmith has a small manufactory, where he executes the jewel created by another person, in this case, the designer. On the third, a goldsmith works in an industry, making parts of jewels or small adjustments to finished jewels. On the jewel-making, they use both hands and head, but not every one of them acts at the various steps of this making. Although in the situations selected for this study the relations between hands and heads shows up in the goldsmith's working practice, theirs working places are different and in the industry most of them are distributed by separated departments and offices, executing standard models created by other people