Comunidade quilombola de Santa Tereza do Matupiri: autoimagem, construção sócio-histórica e territorial

Abstract

The present study had as its theme "Quilombola Community of Santa Tereza do Matupiri: self-image, socio-historical and territorial construction", this community is located in the region of Rio Andirá, Barreirinha municipality, Amazonas State. The main objective of this research is to reconstitute the self-image, socio-historical and territorial construction of the Quilombo of Santa Tereza do Matupiri, as well as identify through the oral reports, ethnography of the place a process of resistance and formation of networks of solidarity among the residents of the communities That composes this quilombola quintet of the Andirá River. The research had the participation of some residents of the community of Santa Tereza, people with roots in black genealogy, active in their own history, being people marked by resistance and struggle in favor of present and future generations. The study was based on Oral History, in a qualitative approach, having as a research resource interviews semi-addressed to the employees and record in the field notebook, these techniques were fundamental for the data collection. The basic sources that theoretically fostered this work were Sales (1971), Gomes (1997, 2003), Sampaio (1997, 2008, 2011), Aleneda (1998, 2006, 2008, 2012) , Chambouleyron (2006), Cavalcante (2013), Pozza Neto (2011), Oliveira (2015). The results of this research in the field of self-image, socio-historical and territorial construction, assertively consider the objectives discussed in the proto proposal of this work, and that in the course of the dissertation the questions raised found answers in the statements of the network of collaborators who composed the research Of field. That after long years of fought struggles, they managed to succeed in their claims for territory and finally having their lands recognized as quilombola communities. According to the Palmares Foundation under Ordinance No. 176, dated October 24, 2013, the Collective Recognition No. 16, the collective recognition of the communities of Boa Fé, Trindade, São Pedro, Ituquara and Matupiri as quilombola communities . The recognition of these quilombola populations located in the Rio Andirá guarantee to the afrodescendent generations the valorization of their ethnic matrix, admitting the existence of a legally constituted people, and whose formalization granted by the state and here emphasized is the result of struggles and persistence of the traditional populations (black) Of the Andirá River. In view of the results presented, it is expected that this quilombola territory will receive attention from the public, federal, state and municipal spheres, so that the history, identity and memory of the Negro can be kept alive in the Amazon.