O ACERVO HISTÓRICO DA COMARCA DE BRAGANÇA: preservação documental e memórias do poder judiciário do Pará

Abstract

From the case study of the region of Bragança, in Pará, this article analyzes the process of organization and documentary preservation, through which passes the historical collection of this state judicial unit. Since 2017 with the signing of the cooperation agreement between the Court of Justice of Pará (TJPA) and the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), preventive conservation activities are carried out with the archive sector of the Bragança Forum, where about one hundred thousand recordsof a civil, criminal and administrative nature, dated from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day , were accumulated under inappropriate conditions. With more than three years of validity, the agreement resulted, among other things, in an extensionproject linked to the Faculty of History, of the Bragança campus, which coordinates the treatment of documentation of permanent value and through which the institutional and social memory of the Judiciary of Pará has been recovered due to the historical research, produced since then, which have in this documentation their main source of information.

Keywords

• documentary preservation
• memory
• judicial power
• braganca - pa