Quilombo de Morrinho : espaços sociais e estratégias para o reconhecimento do território e a apropriação das políticas públicas de saúde

Abstract

This study analyzes the process of struggle waged by the maroon community of Morrinho Poconé / MT, regarding the legalization of its territory, while collective lawsuit has been constituted, also in a process of struggle in defense of the rights to access the health policies. Considering the specificity of the object to be searched, an investigation of a qualitative and socioanthropological, if imposed, since it allows the penetration actually studied, allowing grasp the criteria of self-attribution of the group, its historical trajectory in establishing their territory, their ancestry, their struggles of resistance and currently the forms of appropriation of public policies that arise for these maroon communities. Concepts such as habitus, social space and social fields theory praxiological Bourdiesiana are extremely important so you can know the group's memory and their struggles in the preservation of their heritage, but also their knowledge and to health. Our study shows that local residents, fifty-six are descendants of Old Joaquim, are linked by kinship. Its main economic activity is farming, small farms for consumption. The church of St. Benedict constitutes a symbol, an "anchor" that allowed the members of this community to continue their "feet on the ground." With regard to health, the concept of the group is placed in a holistic and cosmological, also considered as a vital force for the work, the struggle for recognition of its territory has enabled this group of people also seek strategy to ensure their rights access in public policies for health. In it comes to their ethnic identity, the community undergoes intense transformation in relation to its territory, and consequently, their form of identification, seek, in that they are "remnants Maroons", ensuring support of its territory and ownership rights and access to health policies