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The documentary legacy of Epifânio Dória: a functional approach of personal files

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Author(s):
Lorena de Oliveira Souza Campello
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Ana Maria de Almeida Camargo; Zilda Marcia Gricoli Iokoi; Sylvia Bassetto Larocca; Paulo Roberto Elian dos Santos; Marcia Cristina de Carvalho Pazin Vitoriano
Advisor: Ana Maria de Almeida Camargo
Abstract

Personal files are increasingly in evidence and on the agenda for discussion between scholars and professionals in the area of archives. Contributing to the discussion on growth, introducing the defense of a search method with personal files, reasoned and demonstrated from research instrument developed in parallel: The Inventory of chronological file of Epifânio Dória. Son of landowners, Epifânio da Fonseca Dória e Menezes was born in the year of 1884, in Campos (Sergipe). The holder of the file participated in the formation of virtually all study centers, archives, libraries, magazines and institutions dedicated to the humanities in the State of Sergipe. He devoted himself diligently to organize files by six decades gathering documents, gaining resources and acquiring funds. Representative Figure in Sergipe by its contribution to guard, preservation of historical documents and personal files of State of Segipe personalities, studious also by tireless historical research developed over the course of his life. Dead in 1976, Epifânio Dória left us a precious records, which makes a very rich period of the Brazil history, marked by events and transitions, which have for the researcher countless possibilities of research in various areas of knowledge. The file of Epifânio Dória has 35,193 documents, being distributed, and consequently fragmented, in three important institutions sergipanas, namely: Historical and Geographic Institute of Sergipe (IHGSE), Public Archives of the State of Sergipe (APES) and Public State Library Epiphanius Doria (BPED). Although physically fragmented, it is a file intact, preserved by the family and, subsequently, by the institutions of custody that the received. Contact, knowing and working with the documentation gathered by an important intellectual, historian and librarian from Sergipe were was our task. We offer with the work presented a new approach to personal files. In this proposal the classification assumes the closest level to the documents, classified one by one, being prioritized the micro scale and taking into account the specificities of the life trajectory of the holder of the file. In this sense, the record sheets created are the elements of classification that give a sense more immediately to documents. This way, we build a chronological inventory, performing, from this survey instrument, a comprehensive dialog between the documentation produced and accumulated by its holder and their life trajectory. Understanding dialog is not as a historical interpretation, but as the construction of a bridge between the document and the activity/event that you gave rise. The file of Epifânio Dória spurred us on practical problems and theoretical complex, but, on the other hand, offered us the chance to discuss them, seeking solutions and proposals in the development of the research. The thesis presented provides new nuances the methodology archives in order to substantiate the organization, description and contextualization of personal documents, without violating the principles of the area, and further, on the basis of the documentation, the own biography of Epifânio Dória. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 11/20862-1 - The personal archive of Epifânio Dória: for an archival approach
Grantee:Lorena de Oliveira Souza Campello
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate