Discursos sobre património cultural: um estudo a partir de narrativas de visitantes da Fortaleza de Maputo

Abstract

This research analyzes the speeches of a group of visitors about the Maputo Fortress. Gives analyzed literature on cultural heritage I identified three perspectives of which, the first understands that the museum is a place where the memory remains unchanged, which leads it to be considered static, the second understands that memory is rebuilt every day which makes it dynamic and the third sees the museum as a place for questioning. This literature, on the one hand, allows us to understand that cultural heritage is a place that a unique, static history prevails, a dynamic place in which memory is reconstructed at each day and a space for questioning, on the other hand, it remains to understand discourses that individuals produce in interaction with that heritage. Faced with this scenario, I did an ethnographic research at Praça Nossa Senhora da Conceição, commonly Maputo fortress. Based on the results of the same, I understood that individuals consider that Fortaleza constitutes a favorable memory for the Portuguese, because most of part of the heritage exposed there was used by the Portuguese and is silent on the history of the Mozambicans, because there is a lack of exhibits of Mozambican achievements, achievements and objects. Others believe that the history of the Maputo Fortress represents the history that took place in the Mozambican space, which makes it a heritage that represents Mozambicans. The results presented allow to consider the Fortaleza as a space where they live together competing narratives about the heritage there, unlike the literature that analyzes the heritage as something static or that has diversity only over time. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)