Abstract
The article presents a discussion on the urban landscape, the memory of labour and environmental memory along the Sinos River Valley - RS, Brazil, through a collection of texts and images organized from the social trajectories of individuals who have been or still are linked to the region’s leather industry. The material makes part of a collection of ethnographic studies that have been developed since 2012, aiming to understand the social trajectories of the individuals, the “narrators of the work”, in the context of a metropolitan region and its dynamics: population displacement, urban occupation, environmental conflicts, the perception of transformations in the world of work and the relationship between industrial labour, landscape and urban waters. This is an anthropological research based on the ethnography of duration, presenting the trajectories of these individuals in the context of tannery industries, as well as the relationship between the memory of labour and the region’s urban landscape, and the construction of an environmental memory.
Keywords:
Environmental Memory; The Memory Of Labour; The Ethnography Of Duration; Urban Waters; Urban Landscape