This article argues about the reinvention of a common work activity from the agricultural world in Minas Gerais countryside. In this work activity, the ox-cart was integrant part of a subsistence economy, whose social relations were mediated by the interaction of the man with the nature. In the 1970's, with the economic transformations, when the open pasture becomes productive lands in grains for exportation, the ox-cart is celebrated in a popular party and the social practical related to it is transformed, earning a new social meanning and memories of a time that does not exist anymore.
Culture and agricultural world; Work and sociability; Tradition and modernity