Rincão da Chirca - desenvolvimento e etnogênese quilombola de uma comunidade do Pampa brasileiro

Abstract

This study aims to understand how was the process of recognition and how it has enabled the community to study the organization and autonomy to access specific public policies. The study object was the quilombo community of Chirca, which is inserted in the Conservation Area Ibirapuitã in Rosario do Sul. The community has already been the subject of study over the past years, which were held exploratory visits and application of semi-structured questionnaires in order to characterize the current dynamics of the local population and to support analyzes and interpretations about the way of life and reproduction social and economic families. Recently the community of Chirca achieved recognition as a legitimate community of descendants of slaves thus been legitimized as a quilombo. This new situation brought numerous changes, such as access to new public policies that in essence seek to develop actions that enable and ensure the cultural management of traditional territories contributing to the preservation of knowledge and cultural traditions, enabling a community role. Thus, it is assumed that public policy can contribute to the process of building new social representations at the same time creating new meanings and values individual culminating in the rescue of black identity of the residents in community of Chirca. The methodology of work was supported by observation and discourse analysis. There was this work that the pursuit of community for recognition contributed to the strengthening of solidarity and reciprocal ties between individuals of the corner and helped build an appreciation in the community.