Sixteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

This paper analyzes the factors involved in the ethnogenesis process of Kilombo do Rosa, located in the Brazilian Eastern Amazon region, located in the state of Amapá, in the rural area of the municipality of Macapá, 20 km City. The methodology used was ethnography within the community. For the production of ethnogenesis itself, two founding processes were identified. The first was the mobilization in 2002 against a mining company when it was planning to deposit arsenic, toxic waste from mining in the community lands. The second was the arrival of a public policy, the Brasil Kilombola Program. As an expression of the contradictions present in the process of ethnogenesis, the Rosa had to face internal resistance to self-identification as a kilombola by some members of the community itself. Resistance in part was overcome by the group’s own consensus production processes, and in part is still present today in the consciousness of community residents still opposed to self-identification and titling of the territory as a kilombola community. The decisive driving force for the intentionality of the Rosa community towards self-recognition as a kilombola and the respective support of the law was the real threats to the territory of the community experienced in the period. With regard to the relationship between ethnogenesis and territory, self-recognition as a kilombola, and the public positioning as such was decisive in securing the territory of the group in the face of these external threats of the period.