Memória e educação na comunidade quilombola de Mata Cavalo

Abstract

This thesis are the result of a research within the Educational area, intertwined with the field of Social Movements and Popular Education, conduced with the intent of learning about the origin of the Rural Community of Mata Cavalo, located in the municipality of Nossa Senhora do Livramento, state of Mato Grosso, collecting tales narrated by the local population. Its objective consists of understanding the construction of the historical process of that group, as well as the mechanisms for the transmission and maintenance of their cultural roots. The visibility that the Quilombola groups are presently having has been enlarged thanks to a process of fighting towards the acknowledgment of their citizenship and their rights to the territories they inhabited during various generations. The new focusing of the studies starts from the principle of the differences among the rural communities in general, and the remaining Quilombola communities. Within the Mata Cavalo Community, memory has had a fundamental role in the construction of the group’s identity and in the conservation of the ancestral values transmitted from generation to generation through the informal education provided by the traditional feasts, by the social organization and by work, as well as by other experiences of the daily life of the families and by the relations developed by the various communities established within the Quilombo.