Memórias do Batalhão de Lagoa: prática cultural das comunidades rurais do Sertão de Alagoas

Abstract

This text emphasizes the Batalhão of Lagoa that was characterized as a cultural practice of sertanejo and added the cultivation of rice in lagoons formed by São Francisco River, in times when waters were abundant. It is a part of a wider research that uses Oral History (ALBERTI, 2008; BOSI, 1994) and integrates the Memory Core of Youth and Adult Education. In this section we present the memory of this Batalhão, through memorialistic narratives from oral and visual sources of an interlocutor, who witnessed cultural practices of Batalhão of Lagoa, within actions of Mobral Cultural Program, developed in rural area of Municipality of Pão de Açúcar - sertão of Alagoas. The narratives were collected through interviews and photographs (CARTIER-BRESSON, 1971; GURAN, 2011; LEITE, 1993). The data showed that even in midst of a strong ideological charge of Civil-Military Dictatorship of 1964 coup, the sertanejos subjects acted as cultural practitioners, demonstrating resistance of traditional communities in an attempt to preserve their customs and traditions.