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O balaio do bugre serejo: história, memória e linguagem

2007; UNESP; Volume: 5; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

1808-1967

Ana Ap. Arguelho de Souza,

Urban and sociocultural dynamics

This article concerns the production of Helio Serejo, a writer from the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, undeniably the most fertile archivist of a vast region of the western border of Brazil. Serejo left a cultural legacy to posterity in the form of over 60 books, which chart the work of the “erva-mate” harvest; its habits, food, myths, legends, related natural medicine and festivals’, relying on the tri-linguistic that forms the most genuine expression of life and speech habits of the border. His works register an epoch (XIX and beginning of the XX centuries) in which the extraction of the erva mate was the economic engine that helped put this region on the road to civilization. For this essay, three works of the author have been selected. Together, they constitute a sort of synthesis of his collected works. In the realms of language, and with the aid of memory, we aim to learn about the movement of people in relation to the making of their history, within that region that separates Brazil from Paraguay in western Brazil.