Memória indígena: arquivos como instrumento político de emancipação social

Abstract

The study aimed to discuss the importance of archives as instruments of social emancipation for the preservation of indigenous memory, considering the documents produced by indigenous people and about indigenous people in the construction of a specialized archive on the subject, with a view to preserving and disseminating their memories in Paraíba lands. In regard to the methodological approach, the research is characterized as a qualitative and descriptive research of the documentary type, associated with the theoretical principles of ethnographic research. It culminates, therefore, with a mixed research procedure in which we intersected various technical procedures in order to meet the specificities of data collection and analysis. Based on the theoretical-documentary analysis, the documents have an emancipatory power, especially when adding them to the archive as a territory for the preservation of the indigenous memory. It was concluded, therefore, that the archives specialized in indigenous production and about indigenous people are arranged as instruments of social emancipation, by means of the access to demobilized information, enabling the conscious choice of those interested, both in the individual and in the collective fields.