Patrimônios históricos culturais: coronelismo e manutenção da história em Patrocínio, Minas Gerais

Abstract

This monograph seeks, based on the historical cultural heritage listed and cataloged in Patrocínio, Minas Gerais, to establish historical links between them and the formation and development of the city's political and economic scenario. The objective is to show how cultural heritage reproduces the coronelist structure and contributes to the maintenance of the historical past. The legal protection of heritage, whether material or immaterial, demonstrates a conservative past that helps to reproduce systemic actions, in Patrocínio specifically, of the colonialist system. Based on data collected in field research, bibliographical research and documentary research, it was possible to observe a great predisposition on the part of government bodies to maintain memories of this past, using the city's cultural heritage. As a consequence, it points to the erasure of the memories of local populations that are not politically and economically hegemonic. Thus, the “official” memory of Patrocínio becomes the memory of the “dominant” class, in this case, the colonels, farmers and soldiers.