Famílias, território e espiritualidades: uma etnocartografia de Caiana dos Crioulos-PB.

Abstract

The political achievements of the groups labeled as minorities, which represent the emergence of new social individuals, have been gaining the academic scenario of the Social Sciences in the last forty years, highlighting the uneasiness of these sciences with the new. It is from this perspective of struggles for rights that the quilombola movement appears boosted by the constitutional conquest in 1988, once the legal assumption stated in the Art.68 – Temporary Constitutional Provisions Act (ADCT) refers to a possible set of new social individuals designated by the remaining term called quilombola. It was exactly this new confrontation that led studying to a quilombola community in the Brejo rural area of Paraíba - Caiana dos Crioulos – rural area located 12km far from Alagoa Grande-PB municipality. The piece of research, with its modeling, is based on a harmonious relationship between ethnography – the practice of describing/negotiating/experimenting “the other´s society” - and cartography whose objective is to define the boundaries, the outlines, the reference points and the depressions, thus creating a spatial semantics that, in the specific case of this study, is being constructed by a web of relations woven in the daily activities. In this ethnographic context, the research problem was focused on: which dimensions can we consider as the founders of the group´s feeling and flow of community life and that, however, would define these individuals´ experience as a remaining quilombola community? From this, a web of relations, which I propose to carry out ethnocartography, then, the territory, the relations about the relatives and, especially, the feeling of group and the spiritual experiences of those dwellers from Caiana dos Crioulos arise. In order to face this problem, the delimitation of three perspectives is proposed: territorial ethnic perspective, spiritual perspective and familiar perspective as dimensions which are articulated in the daily routine by providing form and dynamics to what I have named the flow of community life.