O lugar da historia no consumo do chamado patrimonio historico
It is often said we must preserve historical heritage because it keeps the memory and the identity of particular people alive, and therefore becomes a way of educating new generations about a time worth remembering. The question is: what period of time? We carried on a study with groups of visitors...
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Published in: | Interseções : revista de estudos interdisciplinares Vol. 14; no. 1; p. 7 |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | Spanish |
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Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro- Uerj
01-06-2012
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Summary: | It is often said we must preserve historical heritage because it keeps the memory and the identity of particular people alive, and therefore becomes a way of educating new generations about a time worth remembering. The question is: what period of time? We carried on a study with groups of visitors to the historical center of Salvador, known as Pelourinho. This study included accompanying their visits, listening to the touristic guides' speeches, writing their comments, and chatting with them. We also have applied 62 questionnaires. The results pointed out that few visitors were really interested in the place history, being mostly more interested in enjoying hedonic experiences or in an aesthetically contemplation of the place. We thus concluded that any policy intending to preserve cultural heritage in order to transmit memory will have to take into account strategies to avoid confusing (alive) historical centers with museums, simplifying their present time or reducing spaces to facades whose historical senses are not pursued, much less understood. Costuma-se dizer que e preciso conservar o patrimonio historico porque ele mantem viva a memoria e a identidade de um povo e, assim, torna-se uma forma de instruir as novas geracoes sobre um tempo que e necessario nao esquecer. A questao e: que tempo? Realizamos uma pesquisa, com grupos de visitantes do centro historico de Salvador-- Pelourinho--, que consistiu em acompanhar suas visitas, escutar os discursos dos guias, anotar seus comentarios e conversar com eles, alem de termos aplicado 62 questionarios. Os resultados foram: poucos visitantes realmente se interessam pela historia do local, estando em sua grande maioria mais interessados em desfrutar de experiencias hedonicas ou contemplar esteticamente o local. Concluimos, assim, que qualquer politica do patrimonio que pretenda conserva-lo com a finalidade de transmitir a memoria tera de pensar em estrategias para que os centros historicos (vivos) nao se confundam com museus, nao simplifiquem seu presente nem reduzam o espaco a fachadas cujos sentidos historicos nao sao buscados, muito menos entendidos. Palavras-chave Centro Historico. Patrimonio. Memoria. Keywords Historical Center. Heritage. Memory. |
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ISSN: | 2317-1456 |