Trajetória do laboratório de documentação histórica: contribuições para a escrita de uma história dos sertões (Caicó, 1998-2022)

Abstract

The issue presented in this work is to understand how the Laboratório de Documentação Histórica (LABORDOC) has been constituting itself as a fundamental document collection for carrying out research in History of the Sertões. Thus, the object of investigation is LABORDOC itself. We seek to know its trajectory, its collection and its characterization as a Documentation Center. We also aim to analyze the uses and users of LABORDOC, considering it as a space for safeguarding a documentary patrimony that preserves memories and produces representations about the seridoense sertões through historiographic practice. For that, we dialogued with Paes (1997), Tessitore (2003) and Belloto (2006), Halbwachs (1950), Bosi (2003), Candau (2011), Choay (2014) and Chartier (1990) to think on the concepts of documentation center, document, archive, background, documentary patrimony, memories and representations. Furthermore, our sources are bibliographical, and to analyze them, we rely on Roger Chartier's conceptual scheme: appropriation, representation and circulation. The study is situated in the dimension of the History of Historiography, and our spatial focus is situated in the field of the History of the Sertões.