https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/4 2026-07-21T08:05:37Z https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/7121 Título: Das estearias à cerâmica Yudjá: poéticas e memória Autor: SANTOS, Laís Norton Fonseca dos Primeiro orientador: MENENDEZ, Larissa Lacerda Abstract: This research proposes an interdisciplinary investigation into Indigenous ceramics, with a focus on the production of the Yudjá people, located in the Pakayá village within the Xingu Indigenous Park (MT), in dialogue with the ceramic legacy of the Maranhão's pile dwellings. Drawing from anthropology, archaeology, and visual arts, the study seeks to understand how ceramics function as an aesthetic, technical, and symbolic language: expressing memory, identity, and resistance among Indigenous peoples. The analysis takes contemporary exhibition such as Véxoa: We Know (2020) as reference, questioning the displacement of ceramic artifacts from their territories of origin to the exhibition space, and the symbolic and political implications of this movement. The research also engages with photographic records by Larissa Menéndez from 2014, originally published on the now-unavailable Visual Virtual MT website, highlighting the urgency of preserving and critically analyzing this archive. Grounded in the theoretical perspectives of authors such as Berta Ribeiro, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Walter Mignolo, the study explores the processes and poetics embedded in Yudjá ceramic practices, understanding ceramics as a form of collective and memory-based production. By addressing ceramics as a living cultural artifact that moves between ritual, daily life, and the museum, this dissertation aims to contribute to the discourse on the modes of existence and representation of Indigenous cultures in contemporary Brazil, advocating for the recognition of their knowledge systems and aesthetics as legitimate forms of knowledge production and artistic expression. Keywords: Instituição: Universidade Federal do Maranhão Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2026-01-30T00:00:00Z https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/7104 Título: Interpretação Patrimonial em Museus: Uma análise do Museu Ferroviário e Portuário do Maranhão Autor: SILVA, Mayane Pereira Primeiro orientador: CUTRIM, Kláutenys Dellene Guedes Abstract: This research investigates heritage interpretation in museums, focusing on the Maranhão Railway and Port Museum, considering interpretation as a communication strategy that makes cultural heritage accessible, understandable, and meaningful to the public. The main objective is to analyze the use of heritage interpretation as a tool for the preservation and communication of cultural heritage within the museum context in Maranhão, aligning with the program’s Culture, Education, and Technology research line by exploring educational and communicative practices mediated through interpretive resources. This is a qualitative study, with bibliographic, documentary, and field approaches, adopting an interdisciplinary perspective that engages the Humanities and Social Sciences, particularly museology, history, cultural heritage, and heritage education. The investigation involved museum visitors selected by voluntary participation and employed content analysis and heritage interpretation categories to assess the effectiveness of interpretive media and institutional communication. Results indicated that the museum is attractive and has interpretive potential, although it presents limitations and specific characteristics that could be improved. This research contributes to the advancement of knowledge on heritage interpretation, demonstrating how mediation strategies can articulate heritage, memory, and identity, guide integrated cultural policies, strengthen administrative partnerships, and enhance the visibility and impact of museums and cultural spaces in diverse contexts, providing a foundation for future theoretical and practical research. Instituição: Universidade Federal do Maranhão Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2026-01-27T00:00:00Z https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/7097 Título: Os griots e o papel da oralidade em angola: a formação da memória coletiva em Parábola do Cágado Velho, de Pepetela     Autor: CUTRIM, Valéria Matos Primeiro orientador: FEITOSA, Márcia Manir Miguel Abstract: Postcolonial literature played a crucial role in enabling Angolan writers to narrate their own history—no longer framed through a colonial gaze. Writing became a profoundly important tool of emancipation and resistance. Through it, authors depicted war, hunger, independence, and the local customs that the population continued to cultivate. Among this group of authors, Pepetela stands out. His literary works seek to reclaim the history of his people, suppressed with the advent of colonization, while simultaneously revealing socio-historical and cultural elements that shape the Angolan territory. Marked by a narrative grounded in orality and making extensive use of Kimbundu—one of Angola’s national languages—Pepetela’s writing revives, through collective memory, a time when knowledge was transmitted by the master figure of the griots, ancestral storytellers entrusted with preserving the link between past and present. In the novel Parábola do Cágado Velho (1996), Pepetela reinscribes storytelling through the interplay of speech and writing, assuming a literary commitment to returning to his origins. Drawing on personal experiences, he proposes a symbolic relationship between man and tortoise, in which the animal appears as a bearer of knowledge and is revered as a religious entity. The tortoise is celebrated as a kind of griot, guardian of values, principles, and advice. Through the didactic structure of a parable, the narrator employs this allegory to revisit ancestral practices embedded in the collective memory of society, directly contributing to the preservation of intangible heritage—namely, oral tradition—while recovering identities and reinforcing group cohesion in a potentially transformative way. The relationship between the animal and Ulume symbolizes a communion between tradition and ancestral wisdom, expressing reverence for knowledge-bearing figures. To develop this study—which follows a qualitative approach and draws on bibliographic and documentary sources within an interdisciplinary framework—this work engages with critical reflections by scholars such as Aimé Césaire (1978), Alain Gheerbrant (2007), Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1987), Ana Mafalda Leite (2020; 2022), Chinua Achebe (1989), Frantz Fanon (2005), Edward Said (1995), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2010), Héli Chatelain (1888–89), Homi K. Bhabha (1998), Honorat Aguéssy (1997), Inocência Mata (2010; 2012; 2014), Jan Vansina (1982), Jean Chevalier (2007), Laura Padilha (1995), Leda Maria Martins (2021), Maurice Halbwachs (2003), Michael Pollak (1992), Pierre Nora (1993), Rita Chaves (1999; 2004; 2005), Stuart Hall (2003), and Terry Eagleton (1983). Instituição: Universidade Federal do Maranhão Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2026-01-26T00:00:00Z https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/7095 Título: Tecer de Varandas: Arte e Memória na Rede de Dormir em Viana/MA Autor: PINHEIRO, Maria Susana Silva Primeiro orientador: OLIVEIRA, Ana Caroline Amorim Abstract: This research seeks to explore the hammock as a historical and cultural artifact in the city of Viana, Maranhão. Rooted in documentary methodology, the study draws from bibliographic and qualitative approaches, analyzing texts from books, scholarly journals, and databases such as SciELO and Google Scholar. Fieldwork was conducted through participant observation and informal conversations with members of the Viana Academy of Letters (AVL) and its youth division (AVLJ), embracing the diversity of Viana's people across generations, educational levels, and social classes. The work is anchored in historical records from scribes, travelers, and artists, as well as in the ethnographic writings of Câmara Cascudo (2003), which provide part of its theoretical foundation. Structured in three chapters, the first offers a review of literature on the hammock; the second investigates its historical, mnemonic, cultural, and symbolic meanings in Brazilian society; and the third delves into the perceptions of Viana’s residents, both young and old, shaped by their lived experiences. Field data reveals that, in Viana, the hammock is entwined with the rhythms of rest—whether strung in open verandas or closed rooms—and evokes memories of kin, childhood, play, drifting thoughts, and mental stillness. Its gentle sway soothes the heat, yet its presence in a home does not guarantee its nightly use. Many participants were unaware of any specific historical narrative tied to the hammock, though they recognized its roles: a seat for visitors, a bed for elders, a cradle of play for children—a democratic, multidisciplinary space where leisure and rest intertwine. Yet a silence lingers: the hammock bears the imprints of personal histories, embodying lives lived and dreams cradled. Amidst the rise of industrial production, the artisanal craft endures through the hands of Dona Isauderina, a weaver who sustains both her livelihood and the ancestral art of hammock-making in Viana. Through it, the thread of tradition remains unbroken. Instituição: Universidade Federal do Maranhão Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2025-06-25T00:00:00Z