Negros de Poções: feitiços e outros caxangás em seus processos sociais: historicidade, identidade e territorialidade em Brejo das Almas – MG

Abstract

This ethnographic work is the result of the derivation of studies about the narrative of the adventure of the black groups (flee, liberates and free) in the sertão located north in the Minas Gerais state, looking for (in)visibility inside of the Campo Negro Ampliado da Jahyba . The central objective is to give answers on the historicity, the ethnic identit y and the territoriality of the Blacks from Poções, their memory and other blacks in the municipal history. In order to narrate the historicity of Poções, I compare their historicity with the one of the municipal district of Francisco Sá. I take a discussion in the re-meaning in the term quilombo and mocambo, to take later the black historicity of Brejo das Almas, turning it’s as a beginning action of the local life. Then, I discuss the occupation process and the territorialization of the local memory, with prominence to the arrival of the Lucas Black's coming from the Recôncavo Baiano. In the discussing on the occupations process and of territorialization in the municipal historiography, I affirm that the presence of blacks in the area felt before the arriv al of the whites, ones making an incursion in the writings of the memorial historian’s. This point of the discussion. I make a narration the about relationship of the family Sá and their slaves, giving emphasis to the farce of the local end of slavery. To discuss about the social organization of the Blacks from Poções I present their internal relational plots, their territorialities dynamics, which are based in the strategies of family and social reproduction, founded in the reciprocity that reinforce their family relation and their neighborhood connection. I still discuss their social process, giving prominence to the Caxangás from CODEVASF for the construction of Pedro Jú's Dam, which water flood the original town after that, with their reference points: t he cemetery of their ancestral ones, the chapel, the cruise and the places of material production. After that I discuss their cultural events, I narrate the Party of Poções, which is a point of Dionysian effervescence that congregates things and contrary elements. The religiosity and the sacrality are centered in the devotion in Senhor Bom Jesus, where the fun practices affirm and reaffirm their ethnic identity of a remaining group of quilombos of the Campo Negro Ampliado da Jahyba . All the identity contents of the Blacks from Poções are diacritical signs that are solidified in the narratives of the Guardian of the local Memory and in the article 68 of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988.