Comunidade Tia Eva: bairro de negros, herança de fé

Abstract

The present work seeks to analyze the Quilombola Community Tia Eva, in the Municipality of Campo Grande, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, formed at the beginning of the 20th century. It explores self-recognition and identification of the community, such as its own forms of social organization, occupation and use of territories and natural resources as a condition for its ancestral, cultural, social, religious and economic reproduction through knowledge, innovations and practices generated and transmitted by tradition expressed in the connections of kinship, compadrio and social movements. From the case study, to understand and narrate part of the process of struggle for the land regularization of the territory of the Quilombola Community Aunt Eva, demonstrating the need to re-dimension the concepts of identity and territoriality associated with interpellations with space and society in a scenario of representation political and social life lived by the community between the years of 1985 and 2008 bringing cultural elements that identify them and offer them the status of Quilombola Community.