Auto)Biography of a rural district in São Paulo: mysteries, forgettings, secrets

Abstract

By crossing the field notebook with interviews produced along an oral history research conducted in a rural neighborhood of Vale do Ribeira (SP) in the eighties of last century, the essay brings up a series of notes concerning the experience of a researcher in her work, the friction caused by the possible presence of a researcher in a peasant community, and on the overlooked and the secrets that are embedded in the plot of the building of a collective (auto)biography within a collectivity.