O poder da territorialidade: “O lugar da gente”, o território pesqueiro

Abstract

In the present research we analyze how the territorial dynamics characterize the traditional way of life and are translated into strategies of resistance and maintenance of the territory, from the case of the Caraíbas Community, in the municipality of Pedras de Maria da Cruz - Minas Gerais. Through an ethnographic approach, we constructed a research process to describe the process of sociability of the families based on their perceptions of occupied space, interpreting the material and symbolic culture of the fishing territory in the process of resistance of the Caraíbas Community. We seek a "dense understanding" of how the elements of river territoriality of territorial dynamics related to land and water, present among the community of Caraíbas, imprint elements in the process of identifying and defending their place of life. The community of Caraíbas in their multiple identities, identify themselves as quilombolas, fishermen and ebb tides that show ethnic diacritical elements and related to the activities governed by the rhythm of nature (fishing and ebb). Their territorialities express a relationship of adaptation to nature and that differentiate them from the current territorial logic of refunctionalization of the territory backed by the value of exchange.