Produção e tipologia documental de movimentos sociais: estudo sobre o arquivo do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terras do Brasil (MST)

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the contribution of studies of documentary forms to the organization and contextualization of record creation by social movements. For this, the reflection is based on the case study carried out on the archive of the Brazil’s Land-less Laborers’Movement (MST), one of the most well-organized entity and wide social penetration in Brazil. As a result, it was found that the record creation of this social organization maintains the characteristic features of archival records, although they are produced in organizations not characterized as a legal entity. In the same way, it was possible to identify that popular records, a typical documentary representation of social movements, always have educational and cultural value and exert communicative action, allowing the recovery of archival bond, often not very evident, but also confirm the archival character of the record creation by these non-institutions in the traditional sense.