O território quilombola do Ambé: história e festa de São Roque

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to history, culture and territory in lasting community Ambe, located in River Valley Quarry in the city of Macapa 75 km from the capital. In it we will rescue the history of the community to understand how was the training of the village, who were the first residents to settle in this area. Was demonstrated how the lifestyle of residents, how they produced their means of subsistence, as was the relationship with the place where they live. We describe the rituals of the feast held in commemoration of the patron saint San Roque community. The Ambe developed throughout the history of a specific mode of life that we bring a small part of this great story that the community has built and is building. To perform these tests on the community first made a theoretical discussion of culture, territory and maroons analyzing concepts that are necessary to understand the work under discussion. And we also did a historical analysis of how black took occupation in this region of Amapá. The methodological procedures used in the case study were developed through field research, desk research, literature and through oral history, where we historicize the process of land occupation in the community. As the analysis developed, the condition which permitted the maintenance of territories was the perpetuation of territoriality maroon. It was found that religious expression constitute the leitmotif of maroon tradition, along with all other forms of cultural expressions such as dance Marabaixo, beliefs, traditions and cultural practices to rescue the ancient tradition of the Quilombo. We realize that members of this community based on ancestral traditions have a black and maroon traditional identity.