O patrimônio enquanto inconsciente da historiografia

Abstract

Heritage is the unconscious of historiography as long as it remains unconscious of the history of the discipline. But if historiography is unconscious of heritage, as long as this continues, it will be difficult for a broader and more articulated vision of History to emerge, just as the lack of knowledge of political, social and epistemological advances of recent decades will remain. The case of Rio de Janeiro proposes a study worthy of interest because it involves multiple temporalities and approaches, but especially regarding the heritage of black and African heritage (since the 1980s) and how (together with the most recent discoveries) this geography allows for important changes both in the narratives of the past and in the teaching of history. In the first part, I recover some referential questions of the history of historiography in Brazil, the need for the discipline to interrogate its memory. In the second part, I extend the references to the debate outside the country to account for the political implications of the theory and the uses of some theoretical references not generally discussed in the field. In the third part, I focus on the notion of historical heritage in Brazil and highlight the case of Rio de Janeiro and the city's black cultural heritage. In the conclusion, I outline some possible directions for the approach I propose and reaffirm my belief in the reason that in order to achieve important advances today in the writing and teaching of history, historiography and the experience of and in heritage must be incorporated into both.