Estudo de público do memorial de dona Edith do Prato de Santo Amaro da Purificação

Abstract

This work has as its research object the Public Study of the Dona Edith Memorial do Prato, in Santo Amaro da Purificação, municipality of Recôncavo Baiano, with the parameters for its foundation the study of Samba de Roda do Recôncavo, of the and work of Dona Edith do Prato and the preservation and dissemination work carried out by the aforementioned Memorial. Finally, the characterization of this reality, from the qualitative data collected through interviews carried out with several people from Santamar. The study is supported in three main strands: the historical one – making up the itinerary of samba and Dona Edith– the person and the samba dancer; and, finally, the explanation of the data obtained from the research. THE research is based mainly on the theories developed by several authors and on the data collected through the oral tradition, involving the theme, together with the documents available in the Memorial and Visitor Register.