Abstract
Este dossiê representa a continuidade de um projecto que tem procurado debater publicamente o património dos agentes ligados à produção e circulação do livro. Centrando-se nos espólios dos livreiros, na introdução problematizante como nos dois depoimentos procura discutir-se o seu carácter invisível enquanto objecto de pesquisa, salvaguarda e divulgação. Há, então, uma reflexão que urge fazer, à semelhança do que acontece com o património dos editores (arquivos históricos e não só), no sentido da discussão em torno do estatuto patrimonial e histórico dos acervos dos livreiros e das livrarias enquanto espaços fundamentais da construção da cultura impressa e da história do livro e da edição. Mas é também urgente conferir ao debate um cunho de acção e de cooperação inter-institucional que suscitem uma sensibilidade política e o aparecimento de possibilidades concretas de salvamento, recolha e depósito sistemático de um dos mais fundamentais elementos da memória colectiva escrita.
This special section represents the continuing of a project aimed at publicly debating the heritage of the agents involved in book production and circulation. Focusing on bookseller’s heritage, we try to address, both in the analytical introduction and in the two contributions, its invisible character as a topic of research, safekeeping, and disclosure. It is, therefore, urgent to discuss the heritage and historical status of booksellers and bookshops’ archives and memorabilia, just as much as with those of publishers, as these spaces are fundamental in the construction of print culture as well in the history of book and publishing. But it is also urgent to inscribe the debate in action and inter-institutional collaboration frameworks, in order to stimulate policy making and public awareness allowing in a systematic fashion to save, gather and keep one of the most crucial elements of the written collective memory.
This special section represents the continuing of a project aimed at publicly debating the heritage of the agents involved in book production and circulation. Focusing on bookseller’s heritage, we try to address, both in the analytical introduction and in the two contributions, its invisible character as a topic of research, safekeeping, and disclosure. It is, therefore, urgent to discuss the heritage and historical status of booksellers and bookshops’ archives and memorabilia, just as much as with those of publishers, as these spaces are fundamental in the construction of print culture as well in the history of book and publishing. But it is also urgent to inscribe the debate in action and inter-institutional collaboration frameworks, in order to stimulate policy making and public awareness allowing in a systematic fashion to save, gather and keep one of the most crucial elements of the written collective memory.
Translated title of the contribution | Dossier : Booksellers and their heritage |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Pages (from-to) | 319-329 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Cultura. Revista de história e teoria das ideias |
Volume | 32 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- Livreiros
- Património Cultural
- Arquivos históricos
- História do livro e da edição
- Política arquivística
- Cooperação inter-institucional
- Memória colectiva
- Medição sociocultural
- Booksellers
- Cultural heritage
- Historical archives
- History of the book and publishing
- Archival policy
- Inter-institutional collaboration
- Collective memory
- Socio-cultural mediation