Constru o de materiais da memória na regi o demarcada do Douro : narrativas orais de antigos trabalhadores da quinta dos canais

This article presents some ideas and materials obtained from a socio-historical study on a farm of the Douro Region, Quinta dos Canais, using direct sources compiled during an extended case study on Carrazeda de Ansi es, a Port wine producer and a border county in the Douro Demarcated Region. Based on testimonies and narratives, the concepts of cyclical/contextual identity, historical memory and oral history, sources and social representations, are explored in this study, as a means to interpret the multiple meanings of the material conditions of life and work on a Douro farm and social change in a present-past. The social actors become subjects of the social and historical memory, of living history and territories of identity which are inscribed in the quinta by specific ways of making history