"Place and Memory:
a search for the historiography and identity of the city of Ritápolis”
Keywords: place, memory, identity, historiography, heritage education.
ABSTRACT
This work investigates the historical origins of the city of Ritápolis, seeking in several primary sources of documentation and in the population's orality for facts that can reveal the development of the place since its earliest times and thus make an unprecedented documentation of the historiography of the place, in order to register the stories, tales and legends told by the population, clarify the true history of the urban formation of the city, rescue its popular traditions, in order to preserve the memory and identity of its people. And, finally, host in a public access digital portal all the content found, the analyzes carried out and produce material for the dissemination of historiography as a basis for Heritage Education.