Habitações de taipa e barro: lugares de memórias e patrimônio na comunidade Barreiro do Café, São Raimundo Nonato/PI.

Abstract

This MA dissertation study discuss the places of memories constructed by the people who inhabit mud and water houses in the Barreiro do Café, one rural community belonged to the city of São Raimundo Nonato, southeast of the Piauí State. It is a study based in the concepts of social memory and heritage. As a methodological procedure, I aply mainly a participatory observer interview in order to highlight the importance or not of clay dwellings as cultural heritage in the community. This study raised some questions too: How the Barreiro do Café’s people recognize its community as a space of memories and identity affirmation? What memories can we realize in the community, the individual one, shared or both? What are the material connections the people have been doing when they talk about the mud and water houses? It should be mentioned that the interviews were applied to community. At this inquiry avenue we can understand that the social memory has been constructing through the material relationship of those objects and community practices of making your houses. This study is relevant because it is at the heart of the contemporary discussions about social memory and cultural heritage, reflecting on how people construct the meanings about the spaces We have been considering as cultural heritage. Thus this study is an interpretive avenue where the Barreiro do Café’s rural community are active agents of his social memory relations and not only native informants. That people is able to speak about himself. As members of a living culture they can represent himself.