Patrimônio cultural, ruralidade e identidade territorial: diversidade na Colônia de Pelotas – RS.

Abstract

The current work focuses on the contemporary rurality in the region of Pelotas-RS’s colony, Serra dos Tapes, and as a beacon the relationship between heritage and territoriality. For that presents three distinct approaches, gradually interwoven together: rurality, heritage and case study. In this course presents various concepts and constructs, including relations between countryside and city in time and history, criteria for definition of rural and urban; the importance of the approaches on territory and development to understand the rural life contemporaneity; relations between culture, society and heritage; the construction of the concept and the heritage. The last step, the case study is divided into two parts, the first covers aspects of the physiography and history of the study area and the second presents field observations, selected from the reference made by then. The results confirm trends mentioned by other studies that indicate, for rural environment, the recovery mode of life, environment and landscape of rural areas as the main points of convergence, both for those who already are there, either for who is beginning to establish some kind of relationship with it. Thus we find a strong relationship between the way of life, associated to environment of the colony and cultural identity of the region. By way of life, mentioned in the Declaration of Tlaxcala (1982), means the number of elements perceived as constitutive of everyday life, which permeates the relationship between man, the environment and the time, involving daily practices related to subsistence ways(agriculture or other ways of work), spirituality (religiosity) and sociability (leisure, entertainment, rituals, etc.).. Collate the different research instruments used, it seems that one of the concepts that permeates this set while working as a synthesis of perception in this way of life is the notion of tranquility. Moreover, the field has revealed a multitude of new facets of the existent heterogeneity and diversity, confirming that the discussion on heritage, imbricated to field of constructins between society and culture, can also be quite revealing to help understand the multifaceted character of the area .