Rezar, cozer e costurar: memórias das estudantes do Educandário (Água Branca / AL 1965-1975)

Abstract

The a priori participation in the Extension Project “Maculating Mnemosine's Veils: organization, cataloging and description of the ecclesiastical records of the Parish of Nossa Senhora da Conceição – Água Branca/AL”, coordinated by Profa. Ma. Sheyla Farias, awakened in me the interest in understanding the role played by Educandário Nossa Senhora do Rosário in the municipality of Água Branca. Thus, the objective of this research is to analyze the process of insertion of the Educandário students in the city of Água Branca-AL in social and religious life. We also examined how the conduct of the students, present in the documentation, was closely linked to their social conditions and investigating the social relations between the students and how they are currently in society, based on the interviews. This research is exploratory and descriptive, and brings a qualitative approach, based on information extracted from the vast documentation found, as well as through semi-structured interviews. This study presents concepts based on the classical historian Le Goff (1990), who emphasizes that documents are actually a construction, that is, there is no true document; in Pollak (1992), who deals with questions of social identity, and using oral history, as we also “drink” from this paradigm. Of Barros (2009), appropriated what the author discusses about the importance of memory and recollections, as well as sources.