Singularidades identitárias da Comunidade Quilombola de Jurussaca: memória, etinicidade e performances

Abstract

This thesis constitutes an analysis of the research I have been conducting, since 2010, the remaining quilombo community Jurussaca within the state of Pará. This community is made up of about 85 families and, since 2002, owns the domain collective land, certified by the Institute of Lands of Pará, having obtained the name of Remaining Quilombola Community of Jurussaca. Stop the research used the ethnographic approach. For this, some procedures are adopted traditionally linked to such an exercise, such as participant observation and unstructured interview. There are reflections on certain dimensions that reveal the process of identity construction of this community, the use and ownership of land, the general impressions of the culture of body configurations, customs and history of Jurussaca. Intended, in this study, collect and record the testimonies and experiences of Jurussaca, which has in the oral narrative the basis of their history and memory. In this sense, I adopted the theories of Paul Connerton (1983), Halbwachs (200 4) and Stuart Hall (2008) .In community, prioritized interviewing elderly, and those linked to religious and political movements. These records reach a social memory, family and group. Therefore, it is the path of memory that a community is reminded of his identity, representing it and counting it a "meta-narrative" explaining the world through its history