Collective organization and Creole seeds: a way of struggle and resistance for the Quilombola socio-cultural identity in the Sítio Veiga community in Quixada-Ceará

Abstract

The cultivation of Creole seeds is part of the wisdom of the ancestral legacy, which can be told since the beginning of the agriculture history, being the traditional communities the great guardians of this cultural heritage, whose teachings transpose the preservation of their memories, since they call attention to the preservation of life itself on the planet and of the next generations, where the preservation of the genetic heritage of these seeds will guarantee the biodiversity existing on Earth. Faced with this reality, this study aims to analyze how the ways of collective organization based on the cultivation of Creole seeds contribute to the preservation of the Quilombola socio-cultural identity in the quilombo community Sítio Veiga in the city of Quixadá, in Ceará state. This research has a qualitative nature, carried out in loco, whose guiding mode was ethnographic, with participant observation, methods that are fundamental for a greater approximation and interaction with the social subjects of the research and the actions inherent to the cultivation of Creole seeds.

Keywords

• creole seeds
• collective organization
• quilombo.