Culturas e memórias das comunidades de quilombo da Amazônia: um passado revisto a partir do presente

Abstract

This dissertation focuses on the contribution of African-born people in the culture and formation of Amazonian society. Nowadays standing out are the remaining Quilombo communities in Lower Amazon region, also known as mocambos. The region is characterized by diversity, socioculturalism, geographical complexities and by a rich cultural and historical heritage. All these values are resulting from the interaction of the various populations during the so long flow of traffics and traffic to the Amazon region. The coexistence between different people favoured the construction of knowledge and practices that are typical of the Lower Amazon region and at the same time represent the singularity of this territory. However, is all this construction a result of resistance or accommodation to the colonizer's logic? This uncomfortable question generated the scientific question of this research, which is to what extent the cultural manifestations, the records of the collective memory and the affirmation of the afro identity of remaining Quilombo community in the region of the Lower Amazon in the present time serves as a foundation for thinking about the past? The research, with a qualitative approach, focused on two communities of Quilombo remnants with records of territorial recognition in INCRA, Silêncio (Óbidos-PA) and Pacoval (Alenquer-PA). The results were valid on account of collective memory records on the historical, cultural and memorial patrimonies of the two communities, generating from it the discussion about the Afro identity affirmation, relating the present to the past and the past to the present, two ways of linking Africa to the Amazon, two distant universes that on account of the great Diaspora ended up being tied by the lively resistance of blacks of Mocambos and Quilombo.