Saco no ombro e mochila nas mãos: a Campanha do Quilo na cidade do Recife.

Abstract

The present report aims to present the history of the Campaign of Kilo, a movement linked to the spiritist community, that emerged in Recife in 1946 with the commitment to collect and distribute food and money for maintenance of the shelters of elderly and orphanages linked to existing spiritist organizations in the capital. The research was based on primary sources, mainly minutes of meetings, statutes, internal regulations, photographs, posters and statements arranged in spiritist books. Newspapers such as: Diário da Noite, Diário da Manhã and Diario de Pernambuco were also analyzed. The applied historiographic bias speaks with the theme of hunger, collective memory and urban behavior and for such was visited the historiography arranged in articles, dissertations, theses and books, marked with theorists Josué de Castro, Jacques Le Goff, Maurice Halbwachws, Michel de Certeau and François Dosse. As a result of the study, an illustrated and interactive dissemination book was developed in ebook format, which aims to provide the disclosure of the history of the Campaign of the Kilo in Recife for students and researchers of as well as for the Campaign practitioners in Pernambuco and other regions of the country.