Potencial dos documentos camarários para estudos historiográficos do lazer

Abstract

Starting from the research “Amusement in Ouro Preto at the end of the XIX century”, in which city council's documents of the Ouro Preto's Municipal Public Archive (APMOP) were used as main source, this paper aims to highlight these documents' potentialities for leisure studies, especially for works that seek to comprehend amusement history. In order to do that we presented APMOP, characteristics and content of the documental types studied, as well as leads found about amusement. Information regarding amusement were found, such as practices, spaces, subjects, economy, revealing the potential and the viability of investigating the amusements through this source. Furthermore, it stands out that the city council's documents can be fundamental in researches that utilize other sources, making possible information crossover and deepening.