História, memória e fotografia: um olhar sobre a modernidade na cidade de Serra Talhada-PE (1940-1980).

Abstract

The present dissertation intends to discuss the question of modernity and the daily aspects in the cities, having as object of study the city of Serra Talhada, Pernambuco, in the temporal cut that goes from 1940 to 1980. In this way, we seek to realize how the political and economic changes, the modernization of transport, communications and social and cultural aspects, influenced the change of habits and the urban characteristics of Serra Talhada. In the search for answers to our questions about the modern in the city of Serra Talhada, we use different historiographic sources, among them: books of memory, oral reports of memory, newspapers and especially of photographs. In the dialogue with this diversity of sources, the indexing method was very important for our research.