“Putting the subject behind”

Planaltina’s fundamental stone and the celebrations of the Centenary of Independence

Abstract

In this year of 2022, when Brazilians celebrate 200 years of Independence, this paper presents an aspect of the celebrations of the Centenary of Independence that took place in 1922: the launching of Planaltina’s Fundamental Stone, which took place on September 7, a monument recognized as heritage by the District Federal Government. As methodology, we privilege the analysis of heritage as an institutional practice of organizing information from the administrative process that recognized the Planaltina’s Fundamental Stone as heritage, established in 1981 and concluded in 1982 by the Department of Education and Culture of the District Federal Government. Based on the analysis of the supporting documents of the administrative process, we identified mechanisms of narrative construction of Planaltina’s Fundamental Stone as heritage and also about the transfer of the Brazilian capital to Brasília. The documents that made up the administrative process were analyzed from a perspective of social/institutional construction. By observing the administrative process through the information organization mechanisms, we analyzed the pieces of the process and the relationship established between them. As a main result of this analysis, we were able to observe how the constitution of this dossier instituted the heritage itself, in this case Planaltina’s Fundamental Stone, while a narrative for the transfer of the federal capital to the hinterland was built.