Sentidos e usos do patrimônio histórico de Água Branca pela população local no tempo presente

Abstract

Sugar was for a long time the main product of the Portuguese colony. The sertão as a region with different climates provided the cultivation of sugarcane and consequently the livestock that for a long time was interconnected with the sugarcane plantation. And slavery, which is also one of the recurring issues, for the economic and social formation of the sertão. However, for this process of colonization of the Brazilian Northeast, the rivers were indispensable for offering in their valley propitious lands for the cultivation of the subsistence products, where a monoculture of the sugar cane was present in large scale and a cattle raising. The slave presence in the regions of the Brazilian sertão were intense to serve as cane plantations. Just like the mills, as farms built in the colonial period, were also erected constructions of houses, churches, squares that symbolized and symbolized the economic power of the time, which became historical monuments with affective, symbolic values that remote us to a time of a period whose values are attributed to monuments by the representativeness of the object. This patrimony context has raised some uneasiness with no right to the feeling of loss / preservation, and consequently enabled us to construct important steps for the historiography of Aguabranquense. For the development of the research, on historical heritage in the city of Água Branca, we take as references researchers who discuss a rural society of sugar, or backwoods, such as municipal laws, popular knowledge about heritage, a relation of population assets.