Pobres como nós: Quilombolas de Rosário e uso comum no Rio Camará (Municípios de Salvaterra e Cachoeira do Arari/PA)

Abstract

This dissertation seeks to understand the Camará River Common Use Territory, named by the Rosario quilombolas, a relevant area used as a source of natural resources essential to their physical, social, economic and cultural reproduction, which they avoided claiming in the process of land regularization. solely in their favor. From the reflection on the values underlying their relations with other neighboring communities and villages, with which they share this territory of common use, theoretical based in Pierre Bourdieu, through the concepts of cultural capital and habitus, I examine their strategies and measures to ensure the enjoyment of existing natural resources (territory, fisheries and forest resources), in addition to the private appropriation of the region's farmers, that are located in areas outside the claimed quilombola territory and those resources are shared with families from other riverside communities, with which it maintains historical relations based on tradition, kinship relations - by ancestry and alliance, triggered in situations of sociocultural events and / or to resolve eventual conflicts. Supported by ethnographic research and open interviews, I describe the relationship between community families and farmers in the region, through the process of occupation, constitution of common use territory and the context in which they called the “Camará River Common Use Area” emerged, in the process of regularization of the quilombola territory of Rosario. Throughout the dissertation, tensions, clash of interests and values between the fields involved and the socioeconomic dynamics of the Camará river channel are identified, which expose the usual actions that demonstrate the resilience of the quilombola community in relations with its neighbors and guarantee them the bonds of solidarity, as well as access - for all - to the natural resources essential to their way of life (mowing, collecting, fishing).