A salvaguarda do saber-fazer do doce colonial em Morro Redondo/RS: a análise do “patrimônio em ação”

Abstract

This research, based on the methodological contribution of Actor-Network Theory (ANT), operationalized by Bruno Latour, aims to interpret facts, events, and narratives of the safeguarding of Morro Redondo's (RS) confectioning traditions' early years (2018-2021). Starting with the recognition of the confectioning traditions in Pelotas and Antiga Pelotas (currently the area of Arroio do Padre, Capão do Leão, Turuçu, and Morro Redondo) as part of the Brazilian intangible cultural heritage, in May 15th, 2018, it is possible to observe the presence of narratives, projects, and yearnings to potentialize the cultural values and the continuity of this knowledge, and, at the same time, reorganize the local landscape, with rural tourism being one of the actants. Thus, it is possible to observe the importance of identifying the human and non-human actors, and accompanying the way they operate, being represented by the closing of, or by the increase in the distance between them. This movement between the actors is a reflection of the connection between the remembrance, the forgetfulness, and the power, that are all involved in area of cultural heritage, a political expression of social memory, and allows the exposition of the first signs necessary for the study of the phenomenon.