Arquivos histórico-científicos do Núcleo de Pesquisa e Documentação de Cultura Popular: fonte de informação e memória

Abstract

The study aimed to understand Nuppo's historical-scientific archive as a source of popular culture information and memory and its researchers, in order to answer the guiding research question that consisted of knowing how Nuppo's historical-scientific archive constitutes a source of popular culture information and memory and its researchers. In this sense, it focuses on the researchers´ literary-scientific and cultural production and, consequently, on the documents derived from these investigations and which are archived at the Center for Research and Documentation of Popular Culture linked to the Federal University of Paraíba. Methodologically, descriptive and documental qualitative research was adopted. The results point to the importance of the historical-scientific archives, highlighting their significance for the preservation of the popular culture memory, especially in the state of Paraíba.