Vinhais Velho: identidade, história e memória marcadas por impactos socioculturais resultantes da construção da Via Expressa em São Luís - MA

Abstract

The present research aims to analyze the way in which the Vinhais Velho Community contemplates the Memorial of the Archaeological Site of Vinhais Velho after the construction of the Expressway in São Luís-MA having been inaugurated in 2014. In this way, the research extends to an analysis of a bibliographic, documental nature – in view of the analysis of the EIA/RIMA – and ethnographic, based on dialogic and polyphonic ethnography. In addition, field data from the author of moments already experienced in previous and current research were used, based on this study. To this end, I highlight the Social Agents who closely experienced the period in which the mega-enterprise was built, between its conflicts and manifestations. In this way, I intend to explain how the social effects from the construction of a mega-enterprise interfere in the lives of people who already have their most diverse ways of life, between daily life, festivities, cultural and social, as well as environmental, haste. Then, in a synthetic way, speeches of Agents who demonstrate dissatisfaction with having their environments interfered are described, where the greatest influence on the part of the elite class is perceived. There is also interference in what corresponds to the insertion of the Memorial, considering that such action was carried out during a conflicted and troubled period. In this way, how does the Community analyze and honor this “gift” from the Government of the Maranhão of State?