Teoria & Pesquisa, v.49, p.191 – 211, 2007
Carmen Silvia Andriolli
RESUMO: Neste texto refletimos acerca da reconstrução da memória coletiva de colonos e colonas de uma antiga fazenda cafeeira do nordeste paulista, que hoje é uma estação ecológica estadual. Para tal reconstrução, definimos como categoria central de análise o trabalho, considerado tanto na esfera pública, como colonos e diaristas, quanto na esfera privada – o trabalho doméstico. Além disso, o trabalho não foi aqui compreendido apenas como uma atividade de gasto de energia física e mental, mas também como aglutinador e determinador da sociabilidade. Pautando-nos na metodologia da história oral, apresentamos sua utilização em associação com a técnica de pesquisa dos mapas afetivos, o que foi fundamental para a recuperação da memória coletiva dos colonos e colonas da Fazenda Jatahy e para a análise das conseqüências causadas com as diferentes formas e apropriação e uso dessa área para a memória desse grupo social.
Palavras-chaves: memória; mapas afetivos; trabalho e estação ecológica.
ABSTRACT: This article presents the remembrances of female and male coffee-farm workers from the Jatahy Farm, located at the Luiz Antonio County, Northeastern region of the São Paulo State, Brazil. The Jatahy Farm was a property that along the 20th century had been through several manners of seizure; from 1925 to 1959 the farm was bought by the Companhia Mogiana de Estradas de Ferro, that extinguished the coffee plantation and in its place had started the pines and eucalyptus cultivation. In 1959 the Jatahy Farm had became a São Paulo State property and most of its area was turned into an experimental station focused on its local forest studies, resulting nowadays on an ecological station in which scientific researches and assisted environmental education are the only activities allowed. From that point on, this study is due to rebuild the collective memory of female and male Jatahy Farm’s coffee workers, understanding Work in its multiple dimensions – the work experienced in public and private circles. The adopted research method was Oral History, by the possibilities it offers on registering and understanding remembrances. In addition to this, the technique of Affective Maps was used and was essencial to revival the remembrances of female and male coffee-farm workers from the Jatahy Farm and to analyze the consequences from different forms of land use to the memory of this social group.
Key-words: memory; affective maps; work and ecological station.
