Segni mnemonici di una perdita: il filò in quanto spazio di rammemorazione nell’immigrazione veneta nel sud del Brasile

Abstract

The Veneto immigration, in the south of Brazil, produced geographically closed communities, which for many years did not have any real contact with Brazilian groups, allowing an amalgamation process of the local cultures and of the dialect particularity, strengthening an ethnic and cultural idea. Progressively, contact with other ethnic communities and the modernization process of the society conduced to a continuous loss of ancestral relationships founded in the solidarity and sociability bonds. In this sense, the filò, part of the habits that the immigrates carried with themselves, became a remembrance place of the departure land experiences and a place to reprocess the community memory. The rebuilt of the cultural code of this groups that came from the north of the peninsula produced the construction of an imaginary Veneto, that acquires his meaning from the immigration memory places.