Travessias (Oct 2011)

BETWEEN MEMORY AND HISTORY: IDENTIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES ON MIGRANTS QUIXADANESES SAO PAULO LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

  • Barbosa Barros

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2

Abstract

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We aim through the representations of the lives of migrants quixadaenses on St. Paul understand the possible meanings of identifications and differences that are presented by oral testimony. In fact, we deal with subjects directly reminiscent of his native Quixad-Ce, a migration time, and Sao Paulo of the late twentieth century. Against this backdrop of memories, worlds and times which can unfold and reveal? We used to do our work, oral history as methodology, however, the historic operation that may be of unknown event of a commonly perceived? We believe that bringing to light stories of lives, histories experienced by these migrants quixadaenses, especially with the advent of Cultural History, will help to understand feelings, values and moments still concealed in the present.

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