Silêncios da necrópole: traços infomemoriais e patrimoniais do cemitério Nossa Senhora da Piedade em Maceió - Alagoas

Abstract

This dissertation discusses the importance of infomemorial and heritage traces present at the N. S. da Piedade Cemetery, in Maceió, for the cultural and heritage memory of the city and Alagoas. The research problem asks: what are the existing practices in the N. S. da Piedade Cemetery in Maceió - Alagoas, based on its infomemorial traces, that ensure its recognition as cultural heritage by society? Its general objective is to analyze the infomemorial and patrimonial traces in the Cemetery in question. It addresses conceptual aspects about death over the centuries, as well as its relationship in art and religion, the different ways of dealing with this theme, including the academy. It presents the problem in the 19th century, when the imperial ban on burials in Churches and the construction of the first cemeteries, in Brazil and in Alagoas in the 19th century, when the cholera and Spanish flu (Influenza) epidemics were also attributed by hygienist medicine to burials in churches. It presents the concept of heritage and its relationship with memory, in addition to presenting a perspective of analysis of the Cemetery in the light of Neodocumentalism, seeing it as a large open-air document. It also addresses the difference in the study of memory in the context of History and its perspective in Information Science. It brings the history of the N. S. da Piedade Cemetery, the infomemorial traces present in the cultural assets formed by the tomb architecture, as well as the buried historical objects and personalities from Alagoas. This is a descriptive study with a documentary bias, in which we used the phenomenological scientific method as an approach method, logical basis of the investigation, and as methods of procedures, technical means of investigation, the historical and observational methods were used; qualitative approach and of a basic nature. It uses field, bibliographic and documentary research as procedures, in addition to content analysis, observation and interview techniques. After the field research carried out, data collection via bibliographic and documentary sources, data collected in interviews with agents responsible for the physical structure and patrimonial integrity of the Cemetery and based on the theoretical references adopted, we responded to the research problem. The results show that, in the N. S. da Piedade Cemetery, the existing practices in terms of memorial and heritage preservation of funereal artifacts that carry important infomemorial traces for the memory of Maceió and Alagoas are still insufficient, as they do not disclose or disseminate the condition of the Special Unit for Cultural Preservation (UEP) of the public Institution in an effective way, not contributing for it to be seen and recognized by society beyond its primordial condition of place of burials. Finally, the work suggests to the municipal, state and federal heritage agencies, measures for the preservation and preventive conservation of the Cemitério N.S. da Piedade, as well as more effective dissemination of its special status as a UEP.