Das caixas da casa colonial às arcas do Museu Paulista

A partir de uma pesquisa desenvolvida no Museu Paulista da Universidade de São Paulo sobre o espaço doméstico e a cultura material em São Paulo colonial, buscaremos problematizar o ofício do historiador ao lidar com documentos de natureza diversa. Comentaremos como se estabeleceu e se conformou, ao longo do trabalho, um diálogo crítico entre as fontes tridimensionais - as peças do acervo - e as fontes textuais produzidas no contexto de origem dos artefatos domésticos - sobretudo inventários. Com base na catalogação de acervo, pretendemos discutir situações de aproximação e incompatibilidade colocadas, muitas vezes, entre os termos utilizados pelos coevos para designar determinadas peças de mobiliário nos séculos XVIII e XIX e a classificação das peças em instituições museológicas. Para tanto, jogaremos luzes sobre caixas e arcas, pois esses móveis de conter e de guardar eram onipresentes nas casas setecentistas do império português.This paper analyzes the way historians deal with different types of historical documents (considering their origins) based on a research conducted at the Paulista Museum of the University of São Paulo on the theme of domestic space and material culture in colonial São Paulo. We will discuss how a critical dialogue was established between the tridimensional sources - the pieces of the collection - and the textual sources produced in the original context of the domestic artifacts - especially inventories. Based on the cataloging of the collection, we analyze situations of approximation and incompatibility often created by the use of the terms by the contemporaries to designate certain pieces of furniture in the 18th and 19th centuries and the terms used in the process of pieces classification in museological institutions. In order to do so, we will shed light on boxes and chests, because these kind of furniture to contain and store were ubiquitous in the 18th century houses of the Portuguese Empire

A construção da memória historiográfica paulista: Dom Luiz de Céspedes Xeria e o mapa de sua expedição de 1628

This study presents an analysis of the map of Don Luis de Cespedes Xeria, which represents the state of São Paulo in 1628, based on the image of the original map that is under custody of the Archivo General de Indias, located in Seville, Spain. This map is compared with the traditional map reproduced by Afonso de Taunay, in 1922, in the Collectanea de mappas de cartographia paulista antiga. By comparison of these primary sources, it is shown that a source can acquire characteristics related to the broader and significant needs associated with the management and administration of a collective memory, which is structured to maintain the power and values of a particular social, hegemonic class. This fact is not noticed as something of a Machiavellian nature and significantly planned or architected, but as part of an unconscious pattern, necessary to maintain the cultural identity of that hegemonic social group

O Serviço de Objetos do Museu Paulista

It focuses the organization of the Department of Object Collections of Museu Paulista - curatorship and information system - and its research directions: 1. Formation of the collections. 2. Money alternative forms. 3. Visual Culture in the 19th century: museums, industrial exhibitions and cities / Commerce, industrialization and Material Culture. 4. Historical and Industrial Archaeology. 5. Military life and Material Culture