ETHNOGENESIS AND TERRITORIAL STRATEGIES OF KILOMBO OF ROSE, MACAPÁ/AMAPÁ

Abstract

The quilombola communities of the state of Amapá began their processes of ethnogenesis in the early 21st century. This article aims to reflect on the Quilombo of Rosa ethnogenesis process. The research methodology is based on ethnography performed with the community. For the production of ethnogenesis itself, two founding processes were identified: the first, the mobilization in 2002 against a mining company, when it planned to deposit arsenic, toxic mining tailings, on community lands; the second, the implementation of the Brazil Quilombola Program. The symbolic universe and the selfrepresentation of the community is much larger than the identity it assumes in the multiethnic context of contact. This dimension of his identity, that of remnant quilombola, is taken to the fore to enable communication with the Brazilian national society. Ethnogenesis thus has the meaning of a territorial strategy, but it does not summarize the whole universe of meanings of community ancestry, memory, and tradition.