La Toma: mineração ancestral de ouro e configuração territorial em uma comunidade afrodescendente do norte do Cauca, Colômbia

Author(s)

Germán Andrés Moriones Polanía

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2017-03-30

Examining board members

José Maurício Paiva Andion Arruti; Emília Pietrafesa de Godoi; Eduardo Antonio Restrepo Uribe

• Advisor: José Maurício Paiva Andion Arruti

Abstract

The aim of this research is to study social production and local management of the territory from the practice of ancestral mining of gold that has been carried out in an afro-descendant community in the municipality of Suarez, located in the north of the department of Cauca-Colombia. This study was carried out specifically in the rural district La Toma, in a specific time in which the population from this place is facing a territorial fight that come out from the concession of a mining title granted by the Colombian state in a property of this locality, to a foreigner linked to a multinational that claims to explode the gold riches of this zones. Taking into account the anthropological studies linked to territorial and social organization that shapes the "invention" of blacks in Colombia as well as the factors that made the conditions for the recognition of black communities as a political and social subjects that was possible in 1991. We intent to analyze the territorial dynamic of the community La Toma from their practices of traditional management, focusing in the practice of any type of ancestral mining of gold that is carry out locally, to conclude with some considerations about the strategies of resistance facing the conflict created recently (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/17335-8 - Territorial redefinition and mining of the 21st century: case study of an Afro-Colombian community of Northern Cauca, Colombia
• Grantee: Germán Andrés Moriones Polanía
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master