PLACES OF MEMORY IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF THE GUAJARA-MIRIM MUSEUM: TEACHING HISTORY IN A DECOLONIAL PROPOSAL
Archaeology; History Teaching; Ancient History, Cultural History.
The purpose of this dissertation is to discuss topics that are addressed by History, such as the concept of memory, History Teaching, historical culture, and Ancient History. This research comes from an approach in Cultural History based on decolonial historiographical debates. The research sources will be the archaeological collection and other documents available at the Guajara-Mirim Museum, more precisely about the ancient History that is not disseminated in the city's public schools. It is possible to observe that the State of Rondonia greatly boasts an official History, a history from the colonizer's point of view. Given the lack of knowledge of this Amazonian past of cultural and archaeological diversity, we perceive a certain narrative discourse of denial of the most remote indigenous History, there are prejudices, stigmas, “erasures” of History, devalued sources and at the same time there is an overvaluation of a History of the State from the 20th century onwards, of the Madeira Mamore Railroad in Guajara-Mirim, as if there was no History prior to the contemporary period. In this Project, the concepts of Archaeology will contribute to the deconstruction of these denials and to valuing the most remote past of Guajara-Mirim. Thus, this Project is open to historiographical debate, based on the dialogue of Archaeology, the concept of memory, Historical Culture and an ancient History of the city of Guajara-Mirim, with a decolonial approach. Based on the proposal of cultural studies, we will research unwritten documents present in the collection to dialogue with the National Common Curricular Base and the Curricular Reference of the State of Rondonia with the purpose of proposing teaching material that values the archaeological collection of the Guajara-Mirim Museum.