CAMPOS VERDES: MEMÓRIA, HISTÓRIA E SABERES

Abstract

This work analyses the immaterial legacy of the miners of the town of Campos Verdes, as a cultural patrimony, historically contextualizing the town from the discovery of the mine until nowadays. It also aims to evidence the miner s knowledge, contextualizing the idea of patrimony as a local identity category, establishing a relation with Choay (2001), when he shows that the new means offered by science and by technique generate a tendency to enrichment without worrying about preserving the cultural assets, either material or immaterial, as in Campos Verdes. Getting to know how the emeralds were discovered, how the town was settled and emancipated, will be important to understand its historical context, which is on the mind of the inhabitants of Campos Verdes, and that will also help those citizens, who are part of that history, feel that they belong to the cultural inheritance of those mines. In order to have this work done some methodological procedures were used, such as: ethnographic research; analysis of documents; bibliographic research; polls and oral testimonies about the local history. These procedures aimed to investigate the historical context of the town of Campos Verdes, women s life at the mines, and the knowledge of the miners.