Festa 13 de maio:

from identity to territoriality

Abstract

Studies the 13th May Party of the Quilombola Dona Juscelina Community in Muricilândia (TO). The objective was to understand this traditional cultural manifestation in the construction of symbolic territory that leads them to exercise territoriality and how their traditions are integrated into the territory. The study is relevant, bringing contributions to the discussions that encompass the relationships of quilombo ethnic groups with nature and their appropriation for the purposes of traditional production modes, as well as the establishment of their territoriality or the struggle to achieve it, involving political and economic power relations. The research has a qualitative character, starting from surveys in the field, we carried out a conceptual and thematic review and mobilized  Oral History’s method. We understand that the 13th May Party is an immaterial territoriality that underlies the territorial rights of the quilombola community under analysis, which claim the concrete territory, it is a link between the past and the present where it provides the group with the production of cultural boundaries that consolidates the identification as a quilombola social category. We believe that the conservation and reproduction of identity traits gives a sense of historical-cultural and symbolic continuity.