“Meu pé de Tarumã Florido": cultura e tradição local contadas através de imagens

Abstract

This Monography is an Discourse Analysis of the book Meu Pé de Tarumã Florido: um retrato de Porto Franco, written by the writer, poet, teacher and lawyer from Porto Franco Waldemar Gomes Pereira and published in 1997. Our object is to highlight how the book provides through photographs an understanding of the processes of development and dynamization of the local culture and tradition of the city of Porto Franco. Thus to accomplish our goal, we reviewed the theory of Discourse Analysis, as well as the use of photographs in the Social Sciences and Anthropology, in addition the concepts of Memory, Culture and Patrimony. The human being is the only living being that when in contact with others is capable of adapting, questioning his own habits and changing them. In this Monography it is possible to see how the people from Porto Franco, 25 years after the publication of the book, continue in a constant process of change in their habits, customs and traditions. The passing of the years makes each group of individuals modify their various ways of life in order to improve their culture. This work, in turn, has made it possible, through photographs, to eternalize the changes in the culture and the spaces found in 2022, in the same way Waldemar Pereira eternalized them in 1997 with the publication of the book.