Click the star to add/remove an item to/from your individual schedule.
You need to be logged in to avail of this functionality.

Accepted Paper:

"Filhos de uma reza só": genealogy of faith and sacred kinship in a community of Maroons  
Rebeca Campos Ferreira (University of São Paulo - USP)

Paper short abstract:

Faced with the constitutional provision that guarantees their rights groups descended from slaves, to recompose the past and present through genealogical data: records Church, ethnography and oral history, paying attention to relations with crony sanctities

Paper long abstract:

This proposal reflects the analysis of data collected in the preparation of the Report of Anthropological recognition of the Community do Carmo as quilombo under Section 68 of ACDT, the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. The process aims to expedite the remnants of Quilombo communities the collective property titles, from which derive the differential access to rights of collective character, ethnic, and land, which refers to the genealogy, as it assumes the offspring of the groups slaves. In this sense, the study analyzes data collected from relatives of information Church - baptism and marriage records that occurred in the community between 1800 to 1940 - complemented with information from participant observation and interviews using oral history, and thus can extend the period 2010. Recomposed so until eight generations of one family, one sees that the current group is descended from six households. Among this information, looked to the fact that the so-called sacred kinship, which show relationships between members of cronyism and sanctities Catholic community, this community still be considered a descendant of slaves of the Carmelite Order. The aim is to develop reflection data relating to parentage, pedigree method according to the information collected through ethnography. It is composed of past and present of a maroon community, as stipulated by the constitutional article, so you can effectively have their rights secured.

Panel P124
The shape of living: genealogy and fieldwork one century after Rivers
  Session 1