Quilombo de São Pedro dos Bois: memória biocultural subvertida nas logicas de ocupações recentes do Amapá

Abstract

The thesis addresses the biocultural memory between quilombolas (descendants of escaped slaves) from São Pedro dos Bois community as an inherent process to the specific territorialities resignified in the present time through a continuous process of beliefs enrichment, knowledge and practices based on common use that sustain the quilombola selfassertion in face of power structures. This coursework investigation is concerned to analyze the intrinsic forms importance of sociocultural uses of natural resources by quilombolas for the territorial continuity based on traditional knowledge, in immemorial beliefs, festivals, backcountries, extractive activities, fisheries and hunts. The biocultural memory of São Pedro dos Bois quilombo has been dispelled with the intensification of recent occupation policies, interventions and prohibitions on the territory and adjoining quilombo communities. The recent disintegration policies of traditionally occupied lands have been encouraged in the last decades by the territorial expansion of AMCEL for eucalyptus cultivation in backcountry old areas, trails, extractive activities and quilombo hunts and in recent years with the regulations of Macapá and Santana Green Free Trade Zone and investments related to agribusiness, especially soy cultivation. Still adding up the construction of hydroelectric plants on Araguari river that connects the Matapi and Pedreira rivers important for the conservation of other streams that cross the region as the "stream of Hell" that directly serve the São Pedro dos Bois community and are part of their stories. It was also verified that the quilombo policies set out in legal regimes and institutional instruments concerning to the quilombo communities services by specific programs and mainly to the territories titrations are being overlooked in the Amapá State. The sources raised by interviews, observations and notes in the field, documentary analysis, conducting workshop for the sketch preparation and photographic records showed that in Amapá State the announced policies of “Sustainable Development” cannot do without understanding the land occupations logic traditionally busy and disregard the quilombo biocultural memory that has a lot to contribute to collective practices in social uses of common goods.