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| Author(s): |
Marcelo Moura Mello
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2008-01-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Emília Pietrafesa de Godoi;
João Pacheco de Oliveira;
John Manuel Monteiro
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| Advisor: | Emília Pietrafesa de Godoi |
| Abstract | |
The present work investigates the role played by memory in a dynamics of identity formation taking place in the rural black community of Cambará, located in the central region of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The community has been claiming a maroon-descendant identity and compliance with the constitutional guarantees such groups are entitled to, especially land titling. Besides aiming at understanding how memory is activated in contexts of identity claim, this study focuses on the dimensions of justice found in narratives about the past. These narratives are situated by means of the description of the different contexts in which the expression of experiences occurred; an attempt is made not reduce these experiences to mere adaptations to the contemporary Brazilian political context (AU) | |