Museu Treze de Maio [May Thirteenth Museum]

a space for Black memory and identity in Santa Maria-RS

Authors

  • Lucinéia Inês Weber
  • Maria Catarina Chitolina Zanini

Keywords:

Memory, Preservation, Museology

Abstract

This proposed study is part of a Research developed at the Federal University of Santa Maria for the Master’s Program in Social Sciences. The guiding question of this study is to understand whether the Museu Treze de Maio has been a mobilizing agent of the processes of ethnic identification and of construction of a black memory in Santa Maria / RS. It seeks to analyze how the relationship between the construction of a black identity and the valorization of African descent memory in the Museu Treze de Maio happens. Memory is understood, according to Halbwachs (1990), as the reading about the past elaborated in the present, through the resources existing in it. We consider the museum as a place of memory (Nora, 1993), in which a space becomes a place (with sense and meaning) and the patrimony, as in the case of the Museum, receives the characteristic of "preservation" (native term) and memory upgrade. We perceive that the activities at the Museum highlight the belonging and value the identity of their regular frequenters.

Author Biographies

Lucinéia Inês Weber

Bacharel em Ciências Sociais. Especialista em História do Brasil. Mestranda em Ciências Sociais.

Maria Catarina Chitolina Zanini

Mestrado em Antropologia. Doutorado em Ciência Social (Antropologia Social) e Pós-doutorado pelo Museu Nacional. Atualmente é professora associada da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM).
Coordenadora do NECON/UFSM (Núcleo de Estudos Contemporâneos). Membro do Comitê de Iniciação Científica e de Inovação Tecnológica da UFSM. Tem experiência na área de Antropologia, trabalhando principalmente com as seguintes temáticas: migrações, teoria antropológica, campesinato e etnicidade. Pesquisadora Associada do NIEM-UFRJ (Núcleo de Estudos Migratórios).

Published

2022-08-23

How to Cite

Weber, L. I., & Zanini, M. C. C. (2022). Museu Treze de Maio [May Thirteenth Museum]: a space for Black memory and identity in Santa Maria-RS. Identidade!, 19(1), 44–54. Retrieved from http://198.211.97.179/periodicos_novo/index.php/Identidade/article/view/1774

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