O almanaque enquanto documento de informação e comunicação popular escrita: a coleção da família Carneiro Rezende

Abstract

The research is about the almanac in collection. The almanac is a popular information and communi-cation document written for many years as a source of information in the cities and rural areas of the country. In the specific case of this study, it is an object of collection, where it presents itself as an infocommunicational device of social, historical and cultural value. The collection of the almanacs studied belongs to the Carneiro Rezende`s family and, it was inaugurated by the collector José Carneiro de Rezende in the first decades of the 20th century. The research aims to represent the alma-nac within a particular collection that covers the period between 1906 through 2014. Through on dif-ferent appropriations and uses, all the collectors, users, readers and keepers made from the collection, giving to the almanac a documentary character of information and a popular written communication. Nowadays, the collection is under custody of Hamilton Carneiro. He is an advertiser and propagator of popular culture in Goias state. To realize the study that was made a descriptive and exploratory re-search that involved the use of quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques – descriptive analysis and interviews. To support the ideas of the research, it was necessary increase knowledge about the following concepts: almanac; popular written communication; popular culture; reading; col-lection and document. The descriptive analysis took 55 titles and 241 copies of almanacs that form the collection from 1906 to 2014. A bibliographic typology of the almanacs were developed from the analysis, taking into account the period, language, illustrative material, present authors and publishers. A thematic classification of the almanacs created with the most relevant themes in the context’s col-lection, and were identified reading vestigial and uses around it. Also the family network of readers was presented. The study allowed the representation of the almanac as an informational document of the popular culture written in the context from a particular collection. Through the descriptive analysis and interviews, it was possible to verify the formation interests of the collection and the uses attributed to the almanacs, demonstrating the documentary-informational relevance, especially in the field during the first half of the 20th century. When the almanac has just represented one of the only sources of information printed to reach readers in the rural area. The use from the almanacs by the collector, readers, users and guardians was made by the study and was verified an important documental-informational paper of the written popular culture, and presents as displays like a device of approach and dialogue between different forms of languages, writings and knowledges. For that reason, it was concluded that the appropriations and uses of the family network`s readers of the almanacs collection were characterized as an informational document of the popular written communication. Also, it was presented besides the infocommunicational, the social, historical and cultural values, registered in this document, their relevance approach to the education and pragmatic instruction that come from the popular life.