The present dissertation is about the study of culture and the rescue of the memories
of the elderly and the social history of the environment, and seeks to answer the
scientific question that will guide the research, namely, the downtown neighborhood of
the city of Santarém has been valued and preserved in its architectural structure
according to the memorial accounts of the elderly people who live in this region? With
this purpose in mind, we intend to achieve our objectives, which were to investigate
scenarios of architectural heritage in the memory and history of social subjects who
experienced the historical constructions of the municipality of Santarém; register the
memorial narrations of the elderly and bring to the scenario of Amazonian cultural
studies their presences that were as if deadened in everyday life and, mainly, to value
such narrations of the people involved in the research, highlighting the expressiveness
of the elders about the conflicting action between preserving and the urban transform.
In our methodological procedure, we chose to use a qualitative approach to research
with the record of oral history from and through an interview script for recording reports
and collecting information in the field. The writing of the dissertation was focused on a
conception of study about culture and the use of memorial narratives of the elderly as
tools for preserving not only their memories but also the culture of the Amazonian
people who live in the western region of Pará, on the banks of the Tapajós River, and
as an answer to the scientific question that we propose to answer in our research.
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