LIBRARY AN SEVERINA PARAÍSO DA SILVA MEMORIAL

PLACES OF MEMORIES OF THE XAMBÁ NATION TERREIRO

Abstract

This Research aimed to analyze how the institutionalization of memory, through the Library and Severina Paraíso da Silva Memorial, established by the Terreiro Nação Xambá Quilombola Community, constitutes a material, symbolic and functionalsite, therebyestablishing these spaces as places of memory that actively safeguard and strengthen the community’s identity and sense of belonging. The method applied in this study was bibliographic, documentary and descriptive, using a qualitative approach. The analysis focused on the memory  spaces maintained by the Terreiro, taking as its focus  the material, symbolic and functional dimensions proposed by Pierre Nora in his study entitled: Between memory and history: the problem og places. We observed throughthe results that the Library and Memorial represent important  tools  for the preservation, organization and transmission of historical and cultural knowledge of the traditions of the Xambá people, a fact that contributes to the appreciation of their culture and to the consolidation of the feeling of belonging og the people of the Terreiro. We conclude that these environments exceed the function of storing documents, being characterized as places of memory that operate in the preservation of local memory, being places of memory that operate in the preservation of local memory, being places of resistance to invisibility and in the reiteration of the identity of the Xambá People.