Maniho’k: informação e memória da Casa de farinha do Povoado Terreirão, Muniz Ferreira, Bahia

Abstract

The dissertation entitled MANIHO'K: MEMORY AND INFORMATION FROM THE Casa de Farinha OF POVOADO TERREIRÃO, MUNIZ FERREIRA, BAHIA, was developed within the scope of the Graduate Program in Information Science (PPGCI) of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), in the line of research 1: Information Policies and Technologies, and hosted by the Memory, Heritage, Culture, Information and Digital Platforms Research Group (G-Acervos). The general objective is to identify the informational elements in the flour mill in the village of Terreirão. The specific objectives are: a) to record the narratives about the origin of Povoado Terreirão; b) present the informational elements developed at the flour mill in Povoado Terreirão; c) report the formation of the Povoado of Terreirão in the context of the Recôncavo Baiano and the municipality of Muniz Ferreira; and d) point out the documentary information about the Povoado Terreirão. The methodology used was the case study and the writings, in a tireless search for constituent elements of the place, as well as the innumerable ethnic-racial cultural contributions. The methodological procedures that helped guide the work are: literature review; secondary data collection; observation in loco and documentary research. The analysis and results were constructed based on Afrocentric references, based on the concepts of memory from Hampaté Bâ, ethnic-racial information (Oliveira and Aquino) and pretagogia (Petit). The conclusion of this study is based on the informational elements in the flour house of Povoado Terreirão materialized by artifacts, techniques, technologies and other orality and it is through them that all ancestral information is preserved and disseminated, enabling subjects to produce countless other ways of re-elaborating the contemporary world. Therefore, it is observed that such practces sound like a way of establishing identity and belonging, in addition to (re)existence.