Quilombos na fronteira oeste mato-grossense : memória social e processos educativos não escolares nas comunidades Exu e Pita Canudo

Abstract

This work approaches two quilombola communities in Cáceres on the western border of the state of Mato Grosso. Specifically, it deals with non-school educational processes and social memory registers built by quilombolas from the Exu and Pita Canudo communities. The aim was to identify the social construction references of the past and the non-school educational processes that occur in the social relations and socio-cultural practices of the quilombola descendants of these communities. The instruments used for data collection were memory registration, documentary research and participant observation. It used inter and transdisciplinary analytical perspectives, drawing on the knowledge of the human and social sciences. In this context, the memory of the elders about the past and the sociocultural constructors that mark the sense of belonging and the cultural practices, were important motes in the analysis and construction of relation of the quilombolas descendants with the territories and the non-scholastic educational processes understood from these experiences. In addition to the peculiar aspects of the fragmentation and / or deterritorialisation suffered by the communities, there are elements in the trajectories of these black populations, marked mainly by cultural aspects and customs present in culinary and sacred relationship practices that include informal educational processes that relate to culture and way of life of quilombola descendants, although many are outside the territory of origin, as in the case of Pita Canudo.