Memória social: aspectos da comunidade da Serra das Viúvas

Abstract

The need to understand social movements within the reality of the city of Água Branca, making a territorial cut to the Serra das Viúvas Quilombola community, which keeps alive the reality of a peasant people who still survive from the land, who pass on their knowledge to the youngest . Through the planting of cassava, as well as handicrafts, the continuity of this community within the space of the city of Água Branca is put into practice. With the objective of understanding new perspectives for social practice in the face of capitalism with the new, the community remains firm and progresses within its social space. The work of peasant women is always to produce and guarantee a harvest that can supply their families in times of non-harvest. As a result, handicrafts also cover financial spaces. Being an exploratory and bibliographical work that studies the paths within its space for individual and collective work as the case of working with the flour house, a period that requires the participation of many so that the service can soon be completed. With that, you can observe that there is still an oral process, transmitting knowledge from the older ones to the younger ones in the sense that when the younger ones leave, they remain firm in the struggle and in their own sense of resistance.