Documents communicating: the cultural value of the Popular Document

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the importance of popular documents in the communication and cultural organization of social movements. In addition to being a source of information, every document expresses human activity, which is inserted in a cultural organization, in a given socio-historical context. In view of this, the documentary production of social movements, like bureaucratic organizations, also follows specific patterns and has definite purposes. In this perspective, this research seeks to highlight the production of the popular document and its cultural value, before the social protagonism of the organized popular strata. To this end, we will historicize the use of the term popular document (dp), as a means of communication between different social movements, from its establishment by the Uruguayan Documentation Center - Latin America (Uruguay, 1981), until its significance today . We found that popular documents have cultural value and exercise a communicative act at all times, during their life cycle and permanent preservation.