Memórias e saberes quilombolas acerca dos sistemas alimentares em contexto de expropriação territorial do quilombo da Bocaina, Porto Estrela, Mato Grosso

Abstract

From an ethnographic study of memories related to the food system of quilombola families in Bocaina, in the municipality of Porto Estrela, Mato Grosso, the transformations occurred in food were identified and reflected after the process of expropriation of the territory that occurred in the 1970s. The study was development with the contribution of concepts such as territory (RAFFESTIN, 1993) and (LITTLE, 2002), anthropology of food (CONTRERAS; GRACIA, 2011) and (DAMATTA, 1986) and memory (HALBWACHS, 2004), and from empirical data from frield research. For this, they were applied as research instruments the participant observation, field diary, photographic records, informal conversations, semi-structured interviews and oral history. As results, the dissertation presents the history of the quilombo that portrays the process of expropriation, in addition to the different forms of production, preparation and consumption of food, highlighting the productive activities of agriculture, extraction, hunting, fishing, among others. that have been resisting in order to relive the past when they lived in Bocaina territory. It is noticeable that there were reductions in productive activities that are important for families' self-consumption and food security, since the places these families currently live in do not represent the value that the territory had. Another relevant aspect in the food contexts was between the analysis of the relationships between foods, sociability, identity and culture, of which the important “Festas de Santos” of “São João Batista” and “São Pedro” can be present. Families are hopeful with the resolution of access to the territory, through a judicial process that guarantees the right to return to their lands. Meanwhile, everyday life is reframed and transformed in the hope of reviving again in its territory.