“Ainda tem o seu perfume pela sala”: um encontro com o arquivo pessoal da professora Zilah Totta (1917 – 1997)

Authors

  • Doris Bittencourt Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

This article analyses a personal collection that represents part of Professor Zilah Totta's career. The aim was to understand her investments in these archiving practices as a production of self, following memorial impulses, with a view to combating forgetfulness, in which different temporalities and dimensions of the titular are implicated. In this encounter with the personal archive, the aim was to focus on Zilah, this woman who, without ceasing to be a teacher, occupied spaces of power in the public world and challenged a male-dominated society in different ways, re-signifying the feminine ethos of the profession. The personal collection, made up of family documents, certificates from her career, teaching materials, a book and many press cuttings, most of them from 1981 and 1982, is a testimony to the memory of a teacher, marking her existence, activities and life experiences amid the memory of teachers' associations in Rio Grande do Sul.

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Author Biography

Doris Bittencourt, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul

Professora de História da Educação  da Faculdade de Educação e no Programa de Pósgraduação em Educação/UFRGS

Published

2025-06-09

How to Cite

Doris Bittencourt. (2025). “Ainda tem o seu perfume pela sala”: um encontro com o arquivo pessoal da professora Zilah Totta (1917 – 1997). Revista História Da Educação, 29. Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/asphe/article/view/140279

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Dossiê “A paixão por guardar: colecionismo, memorabilia e patrimônio educativo”