Nos trilhos do tempo e no fluxo da cidade: um estudo antropológico sobre memória e sociabilidades na região do bairro do Porto de Pelotas/RS.

Abstract

This research focused specifically on the understanding of temporality in the neighborhood of Porto in the city of Pelotas, located in the extreme south of Rio Grande do Sul. From the transformations of sociocultural phenomena of contemporary urban-industrial scale societies, we point out that, the city, and the conformation of the neighborhood, produced by temporality, show different styles and forms of life, established on the different urban itineraries and forms of sociability, producing multiple arrangements, characterizing different temporalities. In this way, in the search for the interpretation of a possible temporality of the neighborhood, the work anchored in the realization of different ethnographic observations. The first, through memory and remomoration studies where we establish as practice and method, the ethnography of duration, in the search to understand the narrated and performatized temporalities by the interlocutor and the city, and former resident of the neighborhood, Jonas Santos, where through of his biographical trajectory as an urban heir, claims a collective identity, marking a determined black, factory, worker and marginalized temporality. Until the second and possible, characterization of the neighborhood, in its present time, allowed the ethnographic insertion in different events, besides daily actions through the observed and practiced sociabilities, where they establish a juvenile-university scenario, through the installation of the Federal University of Pelotas scattered throughout the region of the neighborhood. Therefore, through this research, it was possible to understand at least two types of temporalities of the neighborhood. Through narratives that show historical perspectives of living in the city, establishing an interpretation for scales and urban rhythms distinct from and in the neighborhood, determining the practices of these everyday, establishing territories, and demarcating plural identities in the urban fabric, inserted in a constant negotiation of meanings, by reordering the duration of a specific time in the neighborhood.