THE VISITOR LIKE CAREER OF UNIVERSITY OF THE STREET

Abstract

The shadow economy of the daily consume of products in (food, clothing, home electronics, products of perfumery, etc.) in small and medium market sold by Bolivian people in Salvador de Jujuy city results in a display of research and study of the University of the Street (UdelaC). The levels of participation, the pursuits of participation, the involved groups, the construction of identities, the relationships of learning, the watchable behaviours, and strategic-theoretical knowledges that are produced and renewed. All of these result in a complex situation in which the transference and the circulation of competence and knowledges in an interactive practice of “sui generis” commercial activity. In this sense, the socio-economic circuit of they call themselves, travelers, “Viajantes”, made up of: the “sellers of raisins” (paseros), the “suppliers”, the “drivers”, the “exchangers”, the “keepers”, the “sellers”, the “retailers”, the “customers by request” and the “habitual customers”. Each group possess particularity signs in it use, in it learning, as far as, experts and apprentices people is concerned. At same time, there are social practices called religious and civil festivities that consolidate community of practice.