Dissertação
Memória, cultura e patrimônio nos 100 anos do Colégio Centenário: registros e arquivos fotográficos
Fecha
2020-08-17Autor
Bohnert, Carina Batista
Institución
Resumen
This paper presents a study on the elements of memory, culture, and heritage in
photographic records of Colégio Centenário. Through this, we seek to emphasize the
importance of the composition, organization, and maintenance of Colégio Centenário’s
photographic archive as a way to preserve the cultural heritage and safekeep the
memories of the institution over the years. The school lost all of its collections after a
fire accident in 2007. Although still in full operation, it was necessary to organize the
photographic heritage in such a way as to include its temporal, cultural, and historical
references, especially the oldest ones. Colégio Centenário follows a humanist
philosophy that was born in the Methodist movement in England. The school was
founded in 1922, by American Methodist missionaries who, through the principles of
the Methodist Church, sought to meet the spiritual, intellectual, cultural, social, and
material demands of society. It is understood that the construction of an archive, and
later the production of a selective catalog, will give visibility its presence as a historical
institution in the center of Rio Grande do Sul. For that purpose, we approached archive
organization as well as a research-oriented methodology that was characterized as
exploratory, descriptive, and qualitative. The literature review proves that through the
composition and organization of the archive it is possible to recall the main moments
of Colégio Centenário as a historical and cultural heritage through the photographic
records.