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Presented by the    Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, the study Paisagem e memória: O manguezal do Jequiá na construção da memória de uma colônia de pescadores na Ilha do Governador,(Landscape and memory: The mangrove of Jequiá in the construction of the memory of a colony of fishermen in Ilha do Governador), by Vera Dailce Paiva Monteiro, analyzes the symbolic dimension of the natural landscape represented by the Jequiá Mangrove (Manguezal do Jequiá) in the building-up of the collective memory, pertaining the Z-10 fishery community, situated at Ilha do Governador.

over the years, The space, the men, the memory, all changed - Through the utilization of ethnographic techniques of the participative observation, it was sought to apprehend the real meaning of the mangrove to the fishermen, their offspring and the people unrelated to fishery.