Batalha dos papéis: Notas sobre as tensões entre procedimentos escritos e memória na regularização fundiária de terras de quilombos no Brasil

Abstract

The battle of papers: Notes on the Tensions between Written Procedures and Memory in the Agrarian Regularization of Quilombo Lands in Brazil Abstract This article is a reflection on the processes of land regularization enacted by the section 68 of the Temporary Constitutional Provisions Act of 1988 in Brazil and its deployment in the State administrative routines.We believe that new elements have been imposed and we should consider them when thinking about reparation policies and recognition of the recipients of these constitutional provisions. We use the expression “the battle of papers” to refer to the negotiations obstructed by the State notarial procedures. Efforts will be made to show the situations in which the struggle for social recognition challenges the idea in which it is conceived that the runaway slaves demand is merely territorial. Observed in their various confrontations, these processes conceal a moral vocation, led by the runaway slaves, that overflows the logical demand for the “World of papers” and allows us to visualize the tensions on the ways of materializing, moved from orality to writing, conducted by notions of science and permeated by notary logic.

Keywords

• ethnicity
• territoriality
• quilombos
• recognition
• anthropological experience