Relicários e Quinquilharias: caixas de memória e narrativas de crianças

Abstract

This thesis objective is to see the child as a subject of culture and a producer of history and social memory capable of producing singular memories. Those narratives were composed from the construction of a memory box, where children gathered objects they considered significant from their childhood. Those objects were the starting point for the development of a series of narratives and brought up themes who were dear to the children. I want to introduce the memory concept that references studies from Walter Benjamin, Maurice Halbwachs, Mikhail Bakhtin, Ecléa Bosi, Jeanne Marie Gagnebin, among others, besides the many voices present in the children´s narratives. The field work had as it´s main methodologic strategy the intervention research with narratives created during History classes, with two classes of children between 10 and 11 years old. Those narratives born in the collective space presented themes such as the construction process of the memory boxes, the stories of objects contained in them, their births and death as a subject. This thesis advocates the idea of children as historic agents, able to constitute their own childhood narratives.