Terra, trabalho, parentela e fé: Uma abordagem sobre o espaço social e a herança afro-descendente na comunidade rural de Nogueira, Ponte Nova-MG

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Ana Luiza Fernandes de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3293
• topic: Identidade; Afro-descendente; Território; Identity; Afro-descendant; Territory; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA DOMESTICA

On this essay we present a historical-cultural analysis of the agricultural community of Nogueira, by Ponte Nova city sited at a Northern region of Minas Gerais called Zona da Mata whose population consists exclusively of negro families, about whom hardly anything was know, except for the fact that such community commonly went by the name of "land of the black". It was questioned whether, at that space/time, there could have been the configuration of an afrodescendant identity and a possible territoriality of such nature. Our research is based on the prerogative that negro identities are culturally hybrid and dynamic, historically placed within the context of slavery and racism. Work had as resource a qualitative research with use of document analysis, semi-structuralized polls, oriented observation, and photographs. Research has shown that Nogueira is constituted of a group of 11 families of kindreds, whose ancestors have been on these lands for over 100 years, in such a way that the land is a familiy asset. Every month of September, the kindreds and vicinities update their symbolical boundaries, by the devotion of the "Saint Efigênia", on an extraordinary moment that concurs with the configuration of an afro-descendant territory. Land, work, kinship and faith identify the local inhabitants, whom, up to these days, still do not have the formal deed of ownership of the land, and face intense social-economical inequality.