Memórias em arquivos pessoais: a trajetória de vida de Judith Cortesão a partir de seu arquivo pessoal.

Abstract

Personal archives are composed by documents of social, professional or financial activities and responsibilities, as well as by documents of memorial nature, which subjectively reflect our identities, relationships and emotional bonds. Unlike the institutional archives, personal ones do not follow build-up rules or laws. However, despite the subjective and arbitrary nature that sets up the composition process of personal archives, they may be relevant sources as storage media about life stories of individual personalities, either of public awareness or not. Therefore, this study is aimed at showing a memorial narrative about the life story of Professor Maria Judith Zuzarte Courtier, drawing on the documents that are part of her personal archive, kept by the Sectorial Library of the Graduate in Environmental Education, the Green Room Judith Cortesão, at the Federal University of Rio Grande. Thus, it is sought not only to legitimate such source of personal collections as storage media of individual life stories, but also to reveal a possible systematization of the life story of individuals from these supports. For this research, in addition to documentary sources belonging to Judith Cortesão’s collection, documents from different archives, bibliographic sources and oral testimony of former students were also used, many of which were found from the map and evidence provided by such personal archive.