Tramas e laços entre os quilombos das Cabeceiras do Iguape: configurações de um território

Abstract

In this dissertation I analyze how some groups settled in the "headwaters" or in the higher lands around the Bay of Iguape (Cachoeira, BA), where the limits of four farms founded in the colonial period as sugar producing properties are concentrated. In order to dialogue with this empirical case, I turned to the concepts of territoriality and the process of territorialization. My objective was to describe and analyze the processes of territorialization configured from four specific processes of occupation that intertwine contemporaneously through the frames of their kinship relations, territorial organization regimes, shared values, cultural practices and networks of solidarity and reciprocity , forming a larger social unit, where between the years of 2006 and 2013, three quilombola communities emerged ethnically.