This article proposes a reflection on the knowledge and practice of pottery communities, in order to
understand the handcrafted forms as part of a sociocultural, economic and organizational behavior, that use
the places of clay extraction as productive and life space. Concerning the methodological aspects, the
research was divided into two phases – documentary research (references survey) and fieldwork – and,
through the last one, the photographic material was constructed, the reports of the respondents were obtained
and questionnaires were applied to ten subjects from the municipality of Gouvelândia, Goiás, Brazil.
According to the main results, 100% of the pottery workers are male, 61% have not even finished basic
education, 50% are between 18 and 33 years old, 50% work between six and ten years with the traditional
occupation and, to 100% of these individuals, the potteries are part of the history and tradition of the referred
municipality
