Análisis del comercio de segunda mano como práctica económica en el sector Mercado 27 de Febrero de la ciudad de Cuenca en el año 2023

Abstract

The present research focuses on analyzing the processes of valuation of economic practices in the popular second-hand trade in the 27 de Febrero Market in the city of Cuenca. This research tries to understand this type of trade through the experiences and meanings in the processes of valuation of second-hand items of those who carry it out on a daily basis in popular commerce. Therefore, it is important for me to investigate: How do the economic practices of the second-hand trade contribute to the valuation of goods in the popular trade? From the perspective of Economic Sociology, this dialogue arises between Economic Practices, Valuations and the materialist Anthropology of commodities, as analytical tools. A case study methodology was implemented with a theoretically oriented ethnographic approach, through participant observations and semi-structured interviews with second-hand merchants of the Buena Vida Association, belonging to the Mercado 27 de Febrero. It is concluded that the economic practices of second-hand merchants show the capacity for revaluation of goods in popular commerce, through social struggles of vindication, social, economic and cultural processes of valuation.