A UTILIZAÇÃO DA HISTÓRIA ORAL COMO INSTRUMENTO DE PESQUISA NO EXÉRCITO BRASILEIRO

Abstract

The main concern of this study is to show the influence of oral history as a component of contemporary historiography of the Brazilian Army. This article aims to analyze oral history as historiographic research methodology and verify the use of oral history as a form of historical rescue and textual production in the Brazilian Army. A bibliographic research was carried out in collections and on the Internet, considering the contributions of authors such as Alberti (1989), Meihy (1996) and Thompson (1992), among others, trying to verify the relationship between memory and oral history in the course of the historical process. It was concluded that, as a method and practice in the field of historical knowledge, oral history opens up a range of possibilities to increase knowledge about the relation between history and memory. This can be verified in the several themes researched in the last years that contributed to the historical rescue of several sectors of the world society since the process of oral documentation through interviews is a historically valid and important document when one intends to tell the narrative of a society. Speaking in the scope of Brazilian Army, it was verified the great contribution of the oral history in the rescue to the memory of the institution through the Oral History Project of the Army. The project consolidated interviews with personalities around themes such as: evolution of military engineering and coast artillery; 1 Acadêmico do Curso de História do Centro Universitário Internacional. Bacharel em Ciências Militares pela Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras e especialista em Metodologia no Ensino de Geografia e História pela Universidade Cândido Mendes – ivan_junior_neo@hotmail.com Memories of peace operations and World War II; Reports about the Rondon Project and others.