This article analyzes the processes of remembering and identity formation in a present-day mnemonic community consisting of former inmates of a total government institution for abandoned juveniles in Brazil’s countryside during the Dictatorship Regime. Through the sharing of their remembrances, they mutually shaped their life’s stories in narratives of triumph. For dealing with the empirical data, we acknowledged that memory is a complex phenomenon which must be approached in an interdisciplinary way, considering concepts draw from Cognitive Sciences to Sociology. First, we have collected their remembrances on Social Media, in-depth interviews, and fieldwork over 4 years. Second, we analyzed the dynamics of validation; the network of authorities; and the emotional regimes among the former inmates that determined what is selected and interpreted as collective understandings of the past. We took a relational and processual sociological approach for analyzing how collaborative identity-mnemonic processes are also triggered, supported, and built by the material and cultural surrounding within mnemonic communities. For that, we assume a "distributed memory", and "distributed self" conceptions. Finally, we show how divergent understandings of their past are not validated within their community and consequently dismissed from their narratives of triumph.

本文分析了独裁政权时期现存的助记符社区中记忆和身份形成的过程，该助记符社区由巴西农村废弃少年的整个政府机构的前囚犯组成。通过分享自己的回忆，他们在胜利的叙事中相互塑造了自己的人生故事。为了处理经验数据，我们承认记忆是一个复杂的现象，考虑到从认知科学到社会学的概念，必须以跨学科的方式进行研究。首先，我们在4年的社交媒体，深度访谈和实地考察中收集了他们的纪念。其次，我们分析了验证的动力；该部门的网络; 和情绪制度在那些决定选择什么并解释为对过去的集体理解的前囚犯中。我们采用了一种关系和过程社会学的方法来分析助记符社区内的物质和文化环境如何同时触发，支持和建立协作式身份记忆程序。为此，我们假设使用“分布式内存”和“分布式自身”的概念。最后，我们展示了对他们过去的不同理解如何在他们的社区中没有得到验证，并因此从他们的胜利叙述中被驳回。