Entre a colher e a enxada: interfaces entre a alimentação e a cultura dos quilombolas de Piranga-MG

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Alexandra dos
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4119
• topic: Extensão rural; Comunidades; Quilombolas; Alimentação; Rural extension; Communities; Quilombolas; Food; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::EXTENSAO RURAL

Many are the paths that lead us to the studies on eating habits. As a cultural data, food should be seen as an important tool from which we can understand how we are socially located and which representations we construct from ourselves and from the others. From this perspective, this work aims at studying the cultural matrix of quilombolas communities remaining in the city of Piranga-MG, based on the analysis of choices involving their eating habits. We know that through the constitutional proposals of 1988 these groups are inserted on the national scene, as it is established their rights to title to the lands they inhabit, as long as they assume themselves as quilombolas, preserve traces of African ancestry, and also preserve a link with the land. In this process of recognition, it is present the picture of social mediator, fundamental element in the work of redemption and redefinition of the culture of these people. On this professional it lays the complex task of rediscovering the quilombolas´ culture and makes its significance further enhanced by the group. With the exploratory and the descriptive researches we could build some links, based on the representations that emerge in daily eating habits of Quilombolas of Piranga. The observation and participation in the eating routine of the studied communities allowed us to realize that, further on the aromas which exude from the pans, quilombolas nourishment presents itself as a breeding ground for cultural studies, as well as remains at the service of rural extension practice, in which it is growing demand for research in the cultural sphere.