ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE OF SANTARÉM: MEMORIES AND STORIES OF LOCAL SUBJECTS
Culture. Memory. Amazon. Architectural heritage.
The present research deals with the study of culture and the recovery of memories of the elderly and the social history of the environment, and intend to answer the scientific question that will guide the research, namely, “How to value and preserve culture, memory of the elderly and heritage historical architecture in the Centro neighborhood in Santarém Pará? For this purpose and with the intention of achieving our goals, which will be to unveil scenarios of architectural heritage in the memory and history of the social subjects who experienced the historic constructions in question, record the voices of the elderly and protagonist in their presences that were as if they were deadened in everyday life, narrating the memories of the characters and valuing the narrative expressiveness of the elders. We will choose to use a qualitative approach to research with, oral history research methodology with interview scripts for recording reports and collecting information in the field recorded and later transcribed and analyzed. The writing of the dissertation will be concentrated on a conception of study on culture and the use of the voice narrative of the elderly as a tool for preserving not only their memories but the culture of a people.In our case, the research actors are elderly people who live or lived for some period of their lives in the Centro neighborhood in Santarém Pará.