THE IMPORTANCE OF MEMORY FOR THE (RE) CONSTRUCTION OF QUILOMBOLA IDENTITY: THE EXPERIENCE OF QUILOMBO AT RUA DE PALHA (ITORORÓ/BA)
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This article seeks to present the historical formation process of the Quilombola Remnant Community of Rua de Palha, located in the rural area of the municipality of Itororó, in the south of the state of Bahia, as well as the strategies of reconfiguring the group's identity through the rescue of collective memory. Coming from a markedly interethnic region, these descendants of ex-slaves constitute a contemporary quilombola remnant in southern Bahia with an economic base established in subsistence agriculture, with legal regulations that did not necessarily imply an immediate change in the notion of identity that the group has it. In this work, we present how the re-elaboration of collective memory and the construction of new readings about the past have directly impacted the way in which the Community sees itself and helping in the (re) construction of its identity.
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