Os habitantes do Guaju : um olhar etnográfico sobre o Bairro Guajuviras

Abstract

This research turns on the collective memories and everyday practices of inhabitants of neighborhood Guajuviras, Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, considering the temporary arrangements that rhythm the daily lives of the dwellers of Brazilian cities, set in their expressions, images and narratives. From a visual anthropological approach it was used as method ethnography in urban contexts, paying attention to the line studies on complex societies, and as objective to analyze the phenomenon of memory and duration, understood as the core of social affinities of the inhabitants of contemporary urban space. Based on studies concerning to the biographical narrative and social trajectory, it aims to understand the phenomenon of life and memory of the place, with the principle interpretations of forms of negociation of the locals. Faced the unfinished character of urban living, the highlight is the temporal space structures that evidence the phenomenon of alterity and human experience with the city. It was examined how these people identify with each other, including local solidarity perspective, revealing the narratives tracing that transcends time, leading many ways to establish links in space.