Comunidade quilombola do Curiaú/AP: rupturas e continuidades de tradições e memórias (2000-2023)

Abstract

Brazil is rich in terms of cultural diversity and experiences of the people who form this territory: indigenous, European and African. Black culture is diverse in its forms, corporeality, syncretisms, orixás, cuisine, colors, drumming, among other cultural habits that reinforce the responsibility of their descendants in extending these experiences of cultural knowledge lived in the day-to-day life of community, to new generations. An example of this is Curiaú, a community of local knowledge constituted and maintained by Afro-descendant populations residing in the Curiaú River APA, 12 km from the urban center of Macapá. And given the importance highlighted in the tradition of this Afro-descendant community, we propose the general objective of this study: to get to know Quilombo do Curiaú/AP, highlighting the processes of resistance and preservation of its memory. Since, the cultural legacy of a people transmitted and shared by the community is the greatest inheritance that a generation can receive from its ancestors, a view that is currently much discussed, especially in relation to the African legacy, the basis of Brazilian culture. In this study, qualitative research and the case study method were used. The problem in question is: Have the cultural experiences and local knowledge lived by the Curiaú Community been going through a process of rupture? Our hypothesis is that the advancement of the city of Macapá in its surroundings, as well as the increasing flow of cars and people from outside the community in search of bathing and leisure services at the Curiaú lake, and in other resorts located along the AP-070 Highway, which passes through the quilombo connecting it to other municipalities in the state of Amapá, has generated discomfort for certain residents concerned about the disruption of their cultural experiences and local knowledge. The bibliographic review was carried out using books, periodicals and old and recent official documents such as laws, ordinances, decrees, minutes, photographic records, informal dialogues with residents and application of the semi-structured interview technique.