| dc.description.abstract | Since the second half of the twentieth century with the advent of re-democratization
and promulgation of the 1988 Constitution in Brazil, the remaining quilombola
communities have started the claims for ethnic recognition and land possession.
One of the regions within the country that this claiming situation has been present is
the municipality of Palmeira dos Índios in the northeastern state of Alagoas, where
the Remaining Community of Quilombos is located, so called Tabacaria, that is the
object of this study, which purpose is to research how this community develops the
process of territorialization re-signified through its identity and memory practices. In
order to develop such research, we follow the concepts of collective and individual
memory presented by Joel Candau (2012) and Maurice Halbwachs (2006), material
and immaterial heritage, according to the theoretical assumptions of Françoise
Choay (2006) and François Hartog (2015) based on the discussion concerning
territory carried out by Raffestin (1993), who have been working in accordance to the
discussion on Afro-Brazilian peoples presented by Dirceu Lindoso (2007), Alberti
(2005) and Hebe Matos (2005). The methodology was based on analysis of
documentary sources: letters, photographs, maps, newspapers, documents
produced by the institutional bodies for the recognition of the community (INCRA and
Fundação Cultural Palmares), and oral history resources: interviews, surveys, and
reports of life experience by elderly members, community leaders and
representatives from government agencies. The purpose of this work is to present
identity practices related to collective and individual memories in the re-signification
of a territory linked to the historical and ethnic legitimacy of the quilombolas from
Tabacaria. In addition to the development of the dissertation, a documentary was
produced (21 minutes long) entitled: “Tobacco shop: identities, memories and
territories” in which the results from the research are synthesized and presented as a
pedagogical and dissemination resource for the academic community and the society
in general | |
