Tese
Patrimônio histórico arquitetônico e urbanístico de Diamantina-MG: paisagem e lugar pela vivência dos insiders
Fecha
2021-05-18Autor
Rahyan de Carvalho Alves
Institución
Resumen
Diamantina's heritage “landscape and place through the experience of insiders” will be
our field of analysis based on the categories already mentioned and through discussions
involving the themes of memory, heritage and legitimacy, coupled with the universe of
the development of investigations and geographical practices. The empirical basis of the
research will take place in a vertical and deep way in the emblematic city of Diamantina
(located in the Jequitinhonha Valley - Minas Gerais). It should be noted that we start
from the assumption that this city is home to an architectural and urban heritage set, of
enormous relevance and uniqueness, listed by IPHAN and UNESCO, characterizing
there the exceptionality of the Place and its landscapes, a place where an important
chapter of the biography of urbanization and the economy of Brazil was developed,
whose houses, streets, alleys, squares, churches, among other architectural icons were
consecrated, as symbols of the history of a nation and its people. Based on this premise,
we seek to answer the following questions: “the legal act that made the city of
Diamantina a World Heritage Site and the use of its heritage is currently perceived as
legitimate, in terms of its historical-geographic representativeness and as an experience
of living for your people?. In this perspective, the general objective of the thesis is
precisely to seek to analyze the legitimacy of the historical architectural and urban
heritage set of Diamantina, considering the use and experience of a world heritage
according to the perception of Diamantina residents. To answer these questions, we
resorted to different methodological contributions, choosing as research procedures:
conducting interviews (semi-structured and narrative), transversal walk and
bibliographic and documentary research. We perceive the methodological path,
pertinent and adequate for this, in terms of the nature, essentially qualitative and
humanistic of the research, in which we will have the opportunity to register in the light
of the conceptual categories of analysis and paradigms of the interpretation of Cultural
Geography, Geography of Representations. In the research process, we seek to find a
“perception unit” that can demonstrate the subjects' relationships with/the place/places
and the ways of feeling and perceiving the landscape and heritage, to the point of
becoming clear, if exists, a place-memory-heritage relationship. Furthermore, we will
reflect on the following question: from this process, a patrimonialism emerges, which
can affirm or deny the construction and institutional maintenance of heritage. We
noticed that most of the interviewees emphasize that they recognize the historical and
geographical importance of the heritage complex, in addition to its legal and
sociocultural use, and emphasize that they would maintain the structure of the heritage
properties. It was still possible to detect that there are tensions about the valuation of the
heritage for those who live in the central region and those who live in marginal areas of
the city. However, it is necessary, in parallel to the work already carried out by the
public authorities (such as the Heritage Education Program), to give notoriety and a turn
to the residents of the districts located far from the colonial historic center, emphasizing
the understanding that the cultural heritage of a people comprises the works of its artists
and their will, giving meaning (legal and legitimate) and use to the assets for all.