Name: Roberto Izoton
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 28/09/2016
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Osvaldo Martins de Oliveira | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Osvaldo Martins de Oliveira | Advisor * |
| Patrícia Pereira Pavesi | Internal Alternate * |
| Sandro Jose da Silva | Internal Examiner * |
| Simone Raquel Batista Ferreira | External Examiner * |
Summary: This work concerns the identity and the territoriality of the Quilombo community of Alto Iguape, located in the region formerly known as Goiabas, in the municipality of Guarapari (ES), which received the Certification of Self-Definition as a Remaining Quilombo in 2012. I consider Alto Iguape to be a translocal Quilombola community, as its members do not reside solely in Goiabas, but also in other localities in the urban area of Guarapari as well as in other municipalities of Greater Vitória. Even so, the subjects who live away from Goiabas maintain strong ties with their relatives in the countryside and feel themselves to be part of the same community. After two years of ethnographic research undertaken in Goiabas and Jabaraí, an urban neighborhood WHERE the greatest number of Quilombolas outside Goiabas resides, I found that the process of constituting their Quilombola identity occurred parallel with their process for recognition and certification from the Palmares Cultural Foundation, given that prior to this its members did not identify themselves as Quilombolas. Besides the Quilombolas themselves, various other external actors also participated in both of these processes to greater or lesser degree, for the most part agencies of the municipal, state, and federal governments, as well as members of the Quilombola community of Monte Alegre, in the Capixaba municipality of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim. The Quilombola identity came to be claimed initially in the center of Jabaraí, due to this centers greater contact with the referenced agencies, and only later was it appropriated in differing forms by the members of the center of Goiabas: some deny such an identification; others consider it something granted them; still others appropriate it autonomously. In the constitution of this term, those of Alto Iguape make use of the same elements they utilize in the construction of their territoriality, these being their kinship relations, their economic activities and work relations, their relations with the environment, and their spiritual and religious practices. For this reason it is possible to affirm that both these processes are relational, as they are based on the same four levels of social relations.
Keywords: Quilombola communities, Identity, Territoriality
