Quilombola memory and identity: the case of the remaining quilombo community of Pau d'Arco / Memória e identidade quilombola: o caso da comunidade remanescente de quilombo Pau d'Arco

Abstract

A quilombola community is a space under construction subject to decentralization and globalization like all contemporary space. It is plausible to point out that the formation of memory sites within these traditional communities, despite being a manifestation that is lived in the present, transports the community to a past which gives meaning and unity to the group. In regards to this thematic, this article will cover the final data of the research project titled "Culture, black identity and resistance: The case of the remaining quilombo community of Pau d'Arco", in which, through the perception of the quilombola subjects about themselves and the group to which they belong, and their traditional narratives and customs, the researchers atempt to identify and understand how the memory sites of Vila Pau d'Arco, on the city of Arapiraca-AL, are constituted and how they function, thus composing a story of how its history was built. Methodologically, this is an ethnographic research associated with oral history, with a qualitative analysis of the data collected, which will be obtained through interviews and active observation, implying the imersion of the researchers in the socio-cultural universe of the subjects.

Keywords

• quilombo
• oral history
• traditional comunities