On potentialities and challenges: the problem of forgetting established in disregard with the historical cemeteries in Manaus

Abstract

This article aims to produce scientific knowledge in the historic cemeteries of the 19th-20th century, in Manaus, by seeking a framework in the universe through the representations of funerary tombstones. Upon finding a theoretical framework oriented in funerary studies, and transversely, in research in historical archeology, the present work will seek to expand interdisciplinary knowledge in the intersection of documentary sources, with artifactual sources.

These cemeteries, and their gravestones, which constitute historical archaeological sites, must be studied as representations of the past. The article has as a perspective, not only to foster scientific knowledge, through a search to understand the funerary and ritual aspects, as well as structural aspects of the deposits. With regard to its symbolic aspects of social distinction and noticeable differences in the tomb decoration and in the burial location itself.