Territorialidade Quilombola: um olhar sobre o papel feminino em Caiana dos Crioulos, Alagoa Grande, PB

Abstract

This study aims to interpret the cultural practices of the community Caiana dos Crioulos, from easant activities, seeking to understand the ethnic territoriality, highlighting the figure of maroon women, in the construction of ethnic identity of the group. The research aggragatessocio to the effort to call attention to the forms of resistance undertaken by its embers regarding the demarcation of their lands and cultural practices performed in daily life, in the socio-spatial dynamics which reaffirms their identity and collective memory of that ethnic group. Thus, the territory and territoriality, in Cabanas dos Criolulos, assume a meaning of ethnicity and history, as its members share a common origin. From the theoretical and methodological point of view, we seek an interdisciplinary dialogue from the Geography and related fields, we highlight in this dialogue authors such as: Anjos (1997), Arruti (2005), Raffestin (1993), Haesbaert (2004), Ratts (2003), Gerrtz (1989) and Reis and Gomes (1996). Apart from the archival and bibliographical research, it was indispensable the field work, as a tool to understand and interpret better the area studied, allowing a better understanding of the social reality of the researched subjects. As a result of research, it was verified that women play different roles within the community, whether in domestic, social and religious spaces, but mainly transmitting some aspects of memory which reaffirms the group identity, through cultural practices experienced in teh daily life of their members.