Museum:
Ser Principense
Objective:
The project "Ser Principense: a arte, a cultura e o património, no Passado, Presente e Futuro" aims to enhance the perception of the heritage of Príncipe Island (São Tomé and Príncipe), understanding its inseparability from the territory and the communities that inhabit it. The project contributes to strengthening identities and promoting social cohesion and inclusion, adopting an intergenerational approach.
"Ser Principense" involves identifying and characterizing the cultural and natural heritage of Príncipe, observing, from a historical perspective, the past and the present, promoting the appreciation of its knowledge and its preservation for the future.
The project aims to give voice to the protagonists of the communities of Príncipe. It seeks to learn and record their testimonies through interviews focusing on their life stories, addressing the relationships established with the local context, living/habitability conditions, origins, mobility, education, occupation and/or profession, traditions and local events, also seeking to understand the changes observed in the territory: communication routes, tourism, landscape, biodiversity. The aim is, in particular, to characterize cultural manifestations in their relationship with the natural heritage of Príncipe Island: language, rituals, traditions, artistic expressions, ethnopharmacology, culinary uses, etc. The condition of being an islet should also be considered as a theme, seeking to understand its potential and/or limitations as a factor that characterizes/influences the identities of Príncipe Island.
The project "Ser Principense: a arte, a cultura e o património, no Passado, Presente e Futuro" is promoted by the Príncipe Island Biosphere Reserve, in partnership with the Regional Directorate of Tourism, Commerce, Industry and Culture, the Efrican Foundation and the Memory for All® program of History, Territories and Communities of NOVA FCSH - Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People and the Planet (CFE-UC), and funded by the ACP-EU CULTURE program.
The memories collected within the scope of the "Ser Principense" project are in the process of being processed.
The interviews were conducted in Portuguese.
