Práticas culturais de crianças quilombolas no sertão nordestino

Abstract

This work registers cultural practices of young generations of a quilombola community in the northeast Sertão, located in Água Branca-AL, Brazil. It was conducted 11 workshops with 37 quilombola children and 2 elder people of the community. Considering the children protagonism in the field work, we walked with them in the territory and it was promoted group conversations, intergenerational dialogues, popular play and manual production of toys teached by individuals of those generations. Based on the field work, the younger participants showed their quilombola identity essentially associated with what they do in the territory; involving specific cultural practices based on their generational place as children. We identified as cultural practices examples: popular songs; ximbra; handcraft corn dolls and shuttlecocks; small cars made by banana tree and/or used can; to engage or not in the local craftwork production; to sing and dance funk. Based on those experiences and in the childish culture studies, it was observed that children preserve part of the popular tradition, passed down from generation to generation, and simultaneously they catalyze some local cultural transformations. In terms of conclusion, it is relevant to deconstruct the quilombos’ generalized image only as a locus of tradition reproduction and transmission, as well as to characterize children mainly as receptors of elder people culture.