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Ribeira Seca: memória e identidade cultural
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A Ribeira Seca é um dos sítios da freguesia de Machico com mais de 300 anos,
cujas raízes populacionais se prendem ao povoamento que veio fixar-se nos arredores da
antiga vila de Machico. O seu crescimento foi notório em número de famílias, infletindo se na década de 80 do século passado, até atualidade. Segundo os sensos de 2021, conta se com cerca de 2600 habitantes, em que a maioria são idosos ainda com marcas das
dificuldades dos tempos idos. Transportam como herança a memória de histórias
reivindicativas, dissecadas ao longo da nossa investigação e que constituíram as linhas
mestras dos nossos objetivos: a mudança da identidade cultural desta localidade.
A metodologia aqui traçada, sobretudo as entrevistas, é seguida pela Rede
Internacional de Museus da Pessoa e do Center for Digital Storytelling do EUA, cujas
atividades têm vindo a demonstrar a importância da preservação e valorização das
histórias de vida no futuro da identidade das comunidades.
De menor alcance, mas igualmente importantes, têm sido os projetos a nível
nacional orientados pelas bibliotecas municipais de Oeiras, Rio Maior e pelo Museu da
Ruralidade de Castro Verde.
A linha de tempo considerada abarca estes últimos 60 anos, cruzando-se com a
clandestinidade da emigração para França, com mobilização popular em torno do fim da
colonia, da construção do caminho e da escola nova, da distribuição de eletricidade e de
água canalizada.
Deste ambiente, irrompeu a vontade de mudança evidenciada particularmente pela
imagética literária do cancioneiro de romagem, muito concorrido na animação das festas
do Santíssimo Sacramento e da Senhora do Amparo.
Conscientes da existência dessa transformação cultural na história das gentes da
Ribeira Seca, entendemos ser importante para a defesa da sua memória futura registar,
analisar e divulgar o percurso destas seis décadas de mudança, testemunhadas por
informantes residentes e por outros de fora da localidade.
Ribeira Seca is a site in the parish of Machico with more than 300 years, whose settlement is related with its waves and descendancies in the captaincy of Tristão Vaz. With a decreasing population since the last decades, it currently has around 2600 inhabitants (in 2021), most of whom are elderly with life stories rooted in their daily lives and demands. Their paths can be studied, as is done in the International Network of Museus da Pessoa and the Center for Digital Storytelling in the USA. Institutions which have been demonstrating a consistent validity of the methodology of life stories, as testimonies of individual and collective memory. Of a lesser scope, but equally important, have been projects at a national level, such as those carried out by the municipal libraries of Oeiras, the Municipality of Rio Maior and the Museu das Ruralidades of Castro Verde. The period under study covers the last 60 years, intersecting the experiences of a colonial regime with the memories of clandestine emigration and the precarious facilities of the primary school: Escola do Amparo and Escola da Caçarola – two old buildings with three classrooms operating different classes. From these difficulties emerged the need for change through socio-cultural initiatives, reflected in the literary imagery present in religious songbooks and summer pilgrimages dedicated to the Santíssimo Sacramento and to Senhora do Amparo. Aware of the presence of a cultural metamorphosis and the value of the testimonies of the unique stories of the people of Ribeira Seca, we believe it is important to record, analyze and divulge the knowledge of the six decades of this journey. An interest that we still want to highlight, by means of an observatory of convergent/divergent opinions from the outside, in order to better support the existence of a cultural identity in Ribeira Seca.
Ribeira Seca is a site in the parish of Machico with more than 300 years, whose settlement is related with its waves and descendancies in the captaincy of Tristão Vaz. With a decreasing population since the last decades, it currently has around 2600 inhabitants (in 2021), most of whom are elderly with life stories rooted in their daily lives and demands. Their paths can be studied, as is done in the International Network of Museus da Pessoa and the Center for Digital Storytelling in the USA. Institutions which have been demonstrating a consistent validity of the methodology of life stories, as testimonies of individual and collective memory. Of a lesser scope, but equally important, have been projects at a national level, such as those carried out by the municipal libraries of Oeiras, the Municipality of Rio Maior and the Museu das Ruralidades of Castro Verde. The period under study covers the last 60 years, intersecting the experiences of a colonial regime with the memories of clandestine emigration and the precarious facilities of the primary school: Escola do Amparo and Escola da Caçarola – two old buildings with three classrooms operating different classes. From these difficulties emerged the need for change through socio-cultural initiatives, reflected in the literary imagery present in religious songbooks and summer pilgrimages dedicated to the Santíssimo Sacramento and to Senhora do Amparo. Aware of the presence of a cultural metamorphosis and the value of the testimonies of the unique stories of the people of Ribeira Seca, we believe it is important to record, analyze and divulge the knowledge of the six decades of this journey. An interest that we still want to highlight, by means of an observatory of convergent/divergent opinions from the outside, in order to better support the existence of a cultural identity in Ribeira Seca.
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Memória Vivências Ribeira Seca, Machico, Madeira (Portugal) Identidade Cultura Mudança Memory Experiences Culture Change Estudos Regionais e Locais . Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades