Memórias da cidade : modernidade, sociabilidades e práticas educativas em Cáceres/MT (1909-1948)

Abstract

This Project aims to observe some aspects of the history os Cáceres/MT (1909-1948). Although it has been based in another sources as the periodicals and the posture codes, the main explored source was the oral narrative of a portion of townspeople of Cáceres/MT, in which the most part, composes the elites of the city. It seeks to comprise how the county‟s inhabitants, especially the elites and the public administrators construed the speeches of modernization/modernity that were a constant presence in Brazil at this period, and from this moment, both this social category, that in its majority used to occupy also the public management positions as the local administrative powers, sought, as far as possible, to create measures that would enable Cáceres to approach of the “urbanized and civilized city” model. The second movement was given in order to analyze the various sociabilities woven among the townspeople, pointing also the interests games that were embeeded in these interactions, so in addition to demonstrate the social and cultural segregation of the less economically favored categories, through various measures of social exclusion established by the elites. And lastly, I present some educational practices and from the schooling process in Caceres, taking as a basis the former students‟ memory. To do so, it‟s sought to give visibility to the speeches of the subject Who narrated about their life stories, seeking to build a plausible version of the historic city of Cáceres/MT.