Human gestures, urban gestures: memórias cotidianas da paisagem colonial alagoana

Abstract

Considering that the landscape loads material and immaterial contents when observed during the long process of its formation, this paper deals with an area located in the Alagoas-Brazil seashore that was registered in the colonial period in canvases and maps made by the Dutch during its ocupation of the Brazilian Northeast. This material was confronted with contemporary registers taken in the same place. In the past, the region was the scenery for a ritual of cannibalism evolved the bishop Pero Fernandes Sardinha. Instead of focusing on these great historical facts, this paper aims to observe the human gestures, apparently disregarded but, in truth, the real basis of any landscape.