SANTANA, F. C.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1966149792118174; SANTANA, Flávio Carreiro de.
Résumé:
City, memory, past, representations, materiai transformations and its symbolic questions
arc some concerns of me written narrative presented here, ft intends to be a scientifical
path through which we invite the reader to walk with us. Moved by these interests, this
path intends to present the results of our research related to representations generated by
symbolic and material transformations experienced in the municipality of Pombal, State
of Paraíba between 1930 and 1950. As analytical issues, we seek to understand if those
transformations happened in the urban space in the municipality of Pombal were
experienced and are recalled collectively, what are the more significant changes which
we kept in the memories of our narrators and which are the memories and feelings of
those people related to the events under study. By using the methodology of oral
history, we explored the meanings constructed in the memories of old people.
According to oral evidence, it was also possible to observe other representations created
about the same event than those in the written document constructed by official
discourse of the Munieipiialy Board and the local historiography, in this sense, our
narrators told representations about transformations happened in Pombal which were
less a personal experience and idealizations of progress and more meanings attached to
the íèeiing of social exclusion. The memories of old people reconstruct in the present
some cultural practices shared in the past. They are representations about the city in that
historical moment and its material and symbolic transformations, construction through
oraliry other sceneries, people, stories and uses of space.