Abstract

ORLANDO, Evelyn de Almeida; CLARAS, Lucas Fíngolo  and  KOPPE, Carmen Terezinha. Among Sebos and Bookstores: the cartography of a printed culture circuit and Curitiba’s Intellectual and Cultural History. Acta Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.45, e59613.  Epub Aug 01, 2023. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v45i1.59613.

In Educational History, this paper aims to map a group of bookstores and second-hand bookshops in Curitiba to study these spaces as a printed culture circuit in Curitiba/PR. This city has invested in various projects to spread reading as a practice that radiates culture. As a methodological resource, a mapping was made in online cultural guides, websites, and web pages, to identify the leading second-hand bookshops and bookstores in the city and thus draw a mapping of these spaces. In all, 23 stores were found, 11 of which are bookstores, six function as second-hand bookshops and bookstores, and another 6 act as second-hand bookshops. In addition, bibliographical research was also carried out to indicate how research has been done on these second-hand bookshops and bookstores as possible intellectual and cultural circuits in a city. The dialogue with Aníbal Bragança and Baptistini was fundamental to thinking about the importance of these spaces in the Curitiba scene. As a result of the research, the importance of second-hand bookshops and bookstores to the cultural life of Curitiba as spaces of cultural mediation and their relevance to the intellectual circulation and promotion of the construction of sociabilities became obvious. Furthermore, we verify the role of memory spaces played by second-hand bookshops, which keep evidence of the intellectual and cultural life of different times.

Keywords : sociability; cultural production and mediation; intellectual circuit; memory spaces.

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