Caderno 06: Pedro Braga's Notebook on Village History in Minas Gerais, Brazil

A digitized manuscript and transcription of Notebook 06 authored by Pedro Cordeiro Braga in April 1988. The notebook records the history of the Vau hamlet, his family, and his life, detailing socio-economic dynamics and diamond extraction practices in the Jequitinhonha Valley. Digitization and transcription were performed by Lúcia Valéria Nascimento between 2001 and 2002.

Use Cases

• Study subaltern memory and local intellectualism based on the author's stated intention to record history for public use.
• Analyze socio-economic dynamics and customary practices based on descriptions of the diamond extraction landscape.
• Research post-emancipation rural Brazilian society based on the notebook's focus on village and family history.

Strengths

• The dataset is a primary source authored with explicit intention for public historical use.
• Includes both digitized manuscript images and a transcribed text file.
• Digitization and transcription were performed by a named researcher (Lúcia Valéria Nascimento) over a specified period (2001-2002).

Limitations

• The dataset is small (1.2 MB), limiting the volume of textual content.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the PDF content.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single author's perspective from 1988.

Provenance

Source

Pedro Cordeiro Braga

Collection Method

Handwritten manuscript later digitized and transcribed.

Time Range

April 1988

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 20:12:20; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Vau hamlet, municipality of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Jequitinhonha Valley)