Estrada de ferro Vitória a Minas: conversas de beira de linha

• Autor(a) principal: Delage, Raquel Gotardelo Audebert
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/24729
• topic: estrada de ferro Vitória a Minas; trem de passageiros; memórias; Minas Gerais; Vitória-Minas Railway; passenger train; elderly from Minas s memories; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

This work outlines the story of the Vitória-Minas Railway, told from different points of view. Through ethnographic research, which has a qualitative character, the memory of the railway is revealed by those who lived or still live near it. The acknowledgment and valuing of experiences lived by men and women, related to the object of study, made it possible for the researcher to preserve these memories and acquire new details about the Vitória-Minas Railway story. Contributions by oral tradition, individual and collective memory concepts have been considered under the light of authors like Alessandro Portelli, Pierre Nora, Oswaldo Truzzi, Michael Pollak, Ecléa Bosi among others. Although the main focus of this research is on life stories, and how the railway story can be retold through them, images researched were also explored as possible means of investigation. Authors like Barthes and Boris Kossoy have helped in this process of understanding images as contents to be deciphered, which led us to discuss some of the photos related to the railway and their composition process. Through field research, people s voices could be recorded giving them the opportunity of being heard. The speeches made it possible to understand the changes brought by the railway not only to the small towns and cities but also to those who have narrated their own life story and shared their memories.