The folkcommunicational narratives of the popular museum Sítio do Cajueiro Pedra da Fé in Barcelona (Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)

Abstract

ABSTRACT We present results of researchs first phase whose purpose was: To raise, classify, describe and analyze, in a general context, the messages contained in the folkcommunicacional narratives, from the exhibited pieces, in the popular museum Sítio do Cajueiro Pedra da Fé in Barcelona, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. We apply them ethodological and conceptual strategy of symbolic cartography, from the perspective of the iconic Folkcommunication, proposing a taxonomy of museums componente elements. We infer that the museum presentes it self as na intermediar of the patrimonialization of local memory, playing an active role as an agent that produces cultural meanings capable of perpetuating the identity of Barcelonas people, and can also be seen, by the character of a popular initiative, as a folk-communicational repository. KEY-WORDS Folkcommunication; Museum; Patrimony; Social Memory; Symbolic Cartography.