Tesis
O museu escolar do CEAP: reflexões sobre a prática museal e a relação entre memória e história
Fecha
2012-03-09Autor
Borcioni, Leonardo
Institución
Resumen
This Master’s thesis addresses the cultural institution “School Museum of the Evangelical
School Augusto Pestana”, in Ijuí, founded in 1973, from a study on the constitution of a social
memory of a cultural group with ethnic connotations. From theoretical references such as memory and
ethnicity, this study discusses concepts regarding their historical and cultural dimensions, i.e., the way
in which this cultural group of Teutonic Evangelicals in Ijuí produces discursive strategies of
belonging to a particular ethnic segment through a posture of preservation of a historic past, as a
strategy of resistance to acculturation in a context marked by multiculturalism and loss of traditional
cultural references in a culturally dynamic society. Through a policy of heritage preservation, gathered
at the school museum mentioned, it is possible to observe how Teutonic Evangelicals in Ijuí use
discourses of belonging related to the evangelical community of Ijuí and to a transnational German
community, supposedly imaginary, as a way of differentiation between this and other local cultural
groups, establishing a hierarchy among their group, based on the authority and legitimacy of a
particular historic discourse. This work aims to understand how such strategies and discourses of
belonging to a distinct cultural group of ethnic connotations recurs to an ideological and political
strategy that uses a history that is being constantly updated and adapted to a local and particularized
context.