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| Author(s): |
Isabelle Mendonça de Carvalho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2023-12-18 |
| Examining board members: |
Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno;
Renata Klautau Malcher de Araújo;
Clovis Ramiro Jucá Neto;
Manoel Fernandes de Sousa Neto
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| Advisor: | Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno; Renata Maria de Almeida Martins |
| Abstract | |
This master\'s research carries out an architectural inventory of farms built in the backlands of Acaraú, Coreaú, and Ibiapaba mountains including their artifacts and documents, dating from the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. It analyses the properties under the logic of the urbanization process of cross-border hinterlands between Ceará and Piauí, by studying the various agents and agencies operating there State, Church, farmers, indigenous people, and people of African origin who imparted traditional knowledge to the spaces that result from encounters, transfers, and forms of cultural resistance. Analyzed considering the dynamics of the livestock and farming economy, this material and immaterial heritage reveals knowledge and practices, ways of being, informing about the architectural factory and sociability. Using the methodology of Landscape Archeology (Bueno, 2021), with a long-term perspective (Braudel, 1949), this research mobilizes and intertwines heterogeneous, connected, textual and visual primary sources from the 17th to 20th centuries, seeking to spatialize them in the coeval cartography of the Captaincy of Pernambuco and Siará Grande, later Province of Ceará. To understand the landscape and the farms architecture, the post-mortem inventories of the owners are fundamental, combined with information collected in manuscripts that belong to the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino de Lisboa, drawings and reports from the Comissão Científica de Exploração carried out in 1859-1861, genealogy, books, provincial laws, and available literature about these hinterlands. The intertwined and spatialized primary sources, added to the detailed architectural and photographic survey of the 57 rural properties, through the instruments of Digital Humanities (Historical GIS), allow us to reveal layers of historicity and ancestral representations that are still unexplored by historiography. Of an interdisciplinary nature, this research adds new data to geohistory on vernacular knowledge and practices of rare beauty, delicacy, and simplicity, material and immaterial heritage that still lacks visibility and is far from being reached by preservation policies. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 21/06049-8 - Acaraú´s Cattle farms |
| Grantee: | Isabelle Mendonça de Carvalho |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |