Arquivo de medicina legal como guardião de memória individual e coletiva: espaço de identificação do aparente não identificável

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Uthant Saturnino
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Ciência da Informação; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Arquivo; Documentos especiais; Medicina legal; Memória; Archive; Special documents; Legal medicine; Memory; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::CIENCIA DA INFORMACAO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/9713

Documents are characterized as one of the main sources of historical record, configuring themselves as important information elements, producing memory, a legacy for the generation of files. Throughout history, the media of material memory have not provided a great contribution to the archival science in the most diverse institutions. Based on the concept of memory, the developed piece of research aimed to propose the appropriateness of the memory concept in public institutions, more precisely in the case of Legal Medicine archives, specifically the archive of the Nucleus of Legal Medicine and Dentistry (NUMOL), in the municipality of João Pessoa, in the state of Paraíba, starting to manage and use new media with the purpose of identifying missing persons. This piece of research was based on the study of documentary typology of this archive, which characterizes its archival background in storing from the traditional document to any other type of object, vestiges that later will be transformed into sources of information. Nevertheless, the main focuses are the autopsy, anthropological, and dactyloscopic documents and the forensic DNA, which can gather and make available information from the survey of data collected at the crime scene to be used as individual and collective memory of living persons, identified and unidentified bodies. Moreover, the information professional, by making use of the anthropological, genetic and dactilocopic patrimony, aims at preserving and acting in the archival collection maintenance. Thus, the presented research served not only to enhance scientific knowledge, but also to investigate the social aspects in Information Science and to provide society the resignification of the memory registered in its diverse media.