O patrimônio cultural de matriz africana em Itaqui-RS

Abstract

The preservation of a people’s culture is closely linked to individual and collective memories, to the extent to which people know its history and recognize its importance in understanding the functioning of society. Through awareness of the cultural heritage built by our social group, we can establish strategies for its dissemination to future generations. In this investigative work, we seek to rescue the cultural heritage of an African matrix present in the historical-cultural process of constitution of the city of Itaqui-RS. This presence will be seen in combing the social memory of the black community. This is an exploratory research of a historical and qualitative character, which aims to identify material and immaterial heritage in social spaces such as black social clubs, samba schools, terreiros, among others. The investigative trajectory starts from the bibliographic rescue and from interviews with black men and women, seeking to record / understand their experiences in Itaquiense society, removing from invisibility elements that are part of the structuring of economic, social and cultural domination relations. The concepts of subalternity and subaltern condition based on the work of Anibal Quijano and José de Souza Martins are used as theoretical guidance, coupled with the perspectives of Maurice Halbwachs on social memory. We conclude with the constituent elements of the heritage of African cultural matrix in Itaqui-RS which are the samba schools, the terreiro and the social club.