Cisternas de placa ou de como um artefato cria uma memória do sertão.

Abstract

This paper analyzes how the tanks are plate or not, causing changes in memory and breaks in "traditional" ties of dependence sewn by welfare policies and the discourses of drought relief. Ie, as the tanks begin to develop a positive collective memory about the drought and the backcountry? It also seeks to investigate how new sustainability practices, under the patronage of coexistence with the semiarid region are providing the adaptation of social subjects to natural resources and consequently to live in harmony with the ecosystem, accessibility to knowledge and a contextualization of knowledge, with the active participation of rural communities. Finally, it seeks to identify how these devices are enabling the construction of another dignity to the farmer, who no longer goes to supporting and leading role in the construction of sustainable new knowledge. In this sense, carries on the one hand, an analysis of studies on semi-arid region and droughts that have this region as a problem and the drought as a phenomenon that must be fought, region, and secondly, an assessment of as, from the idea of sustainability and coexistence with the semiarid comes another image of the region being created. In short, attempts to grasp how, from the existence of tanks plaque begins to elaborate an image and, consequently, a positive memory of the semi-arid and dry, considering the testimonies of the residents of the settlement St. Anthony in Cajazeiras, Paraiba.