Arcos da vida e Quadra 27

forgetting and reminders at the city cemetery of Toledo - PR

Abstract

This article seeks to present analyzes of the Cristo Rei cemetery, located in the municipality of Toledo in the West of the State of Paraná. This cemetery space is the oldest in the city. The cemetery has undergone some renovations since its construction in the year 1950 and with that monuments were inserted. The objective is to analyze these elements and understand what changes they brought to space. The Arcos da Vida and Quadra 27 were highlighted and are the main elements of this analysis, as they somehow represent memory and remembrance of some dead. Starting from anthropology, the methodology is developed with ethnography and direct participant observation, these structures were photographed and will be presented and described throughout the text, so that it is possible to understand their function in the cemetery space and what they represent in relation to the idea of pioneering. Quadra 27 and the Arcs of Life are presented separately. In Quadra 27 are buried the forgotten who started to be remembered in mid-2010 through the Arcos da Vida monument that values their tombs, their names and brings the lives represented as forgotten on its pillars along the central corridor. Finally, this study analyzed the forgotten people who were remembered in mid-2010 by the city hall, in a way that their history was linked to the context of the city.