Mulheres que tecem memórias e narram histórias

A study about the social construction process of Cariri's Region storytellers in the Ceara State, Northeast of Brazil under the cultural dimension's perspective requires a research methodology which is able to demonstrate the ways these women perceive and narrate the social story and their own lives. Storytelling is a way to bring women's experiences and the art’s singularities of reconstructing and telling the past and the present. The exploration of the memory's dimension means to achieve the past through the narrative of the present. Since this is a qualitative research, it focuses on field work that utilizes techniques which enable the listening of the women’s experience. It may be characterized as a qualitative research with an ethnographic character based on an oral story methodological approach. By reconstructing their memories, the women of this research narrate the history of his city, his family, religious characters related to their faith and the oratories of their homes and community. They use pens, computers and rhymes while they reconstruct the histories which are narrated in “cordel”3. They also use needles, threads when they embroil their characters in ornamental panels.