A patrimonialização de bens materiais da imigração japonesa e a produção do chá no Vale do Ribeira

Abstract

This article is part of ongoing doctoral research, which has the general objective of analyzing which memories are being triggered and selected for the construction of what social actors in Brazil understand as Brazilian tea. So, initially, we turned our attention to Vale do Ribeira, located in the south of the State of São Paulo, where most of Brazilian tea is currently produced, and which has the city of Registro as the tea capital in Brazil. Based on bibliographical research, we reflect on the consequences of the patrimonialization of material goods linked to the process of Japanese immigration and colonization in the Ribeira Valley connected to the local tea culture, and how this process may have influenced the resumption of tea production in the region . It is important to emphasize that we understand by tea the Camellia Sinensis plant and the infusion made from it, and not the different types of infusions made from flowers, fruits and roots widely used in Brazil.