A emancipação política municipal e suas relações com a Arquivologia

Abstract

The municipalities, as federated entities, play an important role in the organization of the State, because it is in them that the population lives and develops its activities. Many localities aspire to have this condition to offer more quality of life to their citizens. Thus, processes of creating municipalities, whether by merger, dismemberment, or incorporation of territories, generate new federated entities. The objective of this work was to correlate the creation of municipalities in Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s with the adoption of archival principles, especially those of provenance and territoriality, in the preservation of documentary heritage and in the creation of municipal archives, meeting the requirements of legislation and the guidelines of the National Council of Archives, in addition to compliance with the theoretical assumptions of the selected authors. The study consists of a qualitative bibliographic research. It was concluded that more democratic periods favor the process of political-administrative emancipation, generating the creation of new municipalities, but that this process does not always respect the archival principles in the preservation of the cultural legacy of the localities involved, and that these should be considered in the creation of new municipal public archives, as well as the legal and indicative norms of the class entities that represent on Archival Science.