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| Author(s): |
Rebeca A. A. de Campos Ferreira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2022-08-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Vagner Goncalves da Silva;
José Maurício Paiva Andion Arruti;
Neusa Maria Mendes de Gusmão;
Ana Lúcia Pastore Schritzmeyer
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| Advisor: | Vagner Goncalves da Silva |
| Abstract | |
The dynamics of identities and religiosities in a quilombola community form the keynote of this thesis.The empirical field is Quilombo do Carmo, located in São Roque/SP, from which, in the first chapter, the organization of time by religiosity will be analyzed, with considerations on popular Catholicism, meanings and senses of religious celebrations from the calendar devotional lived. In the second chapter, religiosity will be dealt with in its interface to the social constitution of the community, establishing reflections on the symbolic structures of/in the myth of origin and the ways in which religious attributes are based on kinship and affinity relationships. The third chapter reflects on the sociocultural constitution of the territory and the role of religiosity in the processes of territorialization, deterritorialization and reterritorialization that mark the trajectory of the community, characterizing the social production of a territoriality by religious activities that designate the configuration of devotional spaces. The quilombola issue is introduced in the fourth chapter, adding statements from the theories of identities, ethnicities, and minority rights, paying attention to the paradoxes of the processes of recognition of ethnic rights and the ways in which the quilombola ethnogenesis took place within the Carmo community. In view of this, the thesis is metaphorized to a patchwork quilt, an expressive artifact of the community, having in each chapter a patch whose theme is fundamental to the understanding of the identity dynamics that are sewn by religiosity. In other words, I follow the ways in which the logic of religiosity, in general, organizes temporality, kinship, territoriality and ethnicity; and how Nossa Senhora do Carmo, in particular, guides the constitution of the group\'s identity as ethnically singular. In the trope of the spinning wheel of social life, the loom continues to weave the ways in which the saint-mother-patron is both the axis of the origin of the community and of its permanence in that area. In the spindle, the understanding of the processes of construction of a quilombola identity and a quilombola territoriality that will have their foundations in what was already the motivic component of the existence and permanence of the social group: Nossa Senhora do Carmo. The thesis quilt weaves religiosity as a cultural system, structuring social organization, building sociabilities and solidarities, reciprocity and obligations, in a rationality that will also intertwine rights and the state when the quilombola issue begins. Therefore, I point out the narratives and actions that will lead to quilombola ethnogenesis according to the criteria of belonging to the group and, in this identity plot, the saint-mother-patron becomes the flag of struggle of the children, devotees, heirs and quilombolas of Nossa Senhora do Carmo, reconciling the generalities of the law with its couplets of belonging in a process that has the power to build a legal pluralism. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/21450-9 - The sons of one prays only: juridical regulation of identities and paradoxes of adequacy in processes of recognition of quilombo communities |
| Grantee: | Rebeca Ariel Aparecida de Campos Ferreira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct) |