QUILOMBOLA TERRITORY AND IDENTITY IN SÍTIO VEIGA, QUIXADÁ, CEARÁ
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The objective is to demonstrate how resistance occurs, the struggle for land tenure and the processes of identity construction occur through the community's material and immaterial cultural practices Quilombola Sítio Veiga, Dom Maurício district in Quixadá, Ceará, Brazil, facing the Eurocentric ideal. It is an exploratory study of an ethnographic case study with a qualitative approach. Direct observation, the use of oral history and the techniques of non-directive interviews, image resources and primary and secondary written sources were used. Discourse analysis was used in the context of socio-historical and contextual criticism. The results point to the identification of Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestations present in the daily practices of the know-how of residents of the quilombola community under study, various struggles and resistances for land ownership and the cultural identity valuation of the inhabitants.
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