O riacho e as eras: memórias, identidade e território em uma comunidade rural negra do Seridó Potiguar

Abstract

Negros do Riacho is a denomination conferred to a country community located in Currais Novos – RN Town which was acknowledged as “quilombo remnant” in 2006 This work builds from memories about the foundation of Riacho dos Angicos Farm references to a mythical and ancestral temporality in which the first Negro of that family that took possession of the lands bordered by Riacho dos Angicos lived As thought by the elderly this “age” character known as Trajano Passarinho, possibly took possession of that space in D. Pedro II’s period and built his life in a “no one’s land” in a piece of land constituted of a “woods and mountains” landscape ancient Negros’ habitation place Nowadays this land pertains to his relatives constituting a community with 197 people that regard themselves as heirs of a territory built and conquered in immemorial times, demarcated in “ages” Relying on accounts about this past as well as in the elderly ones’ life stories it is intended to analyze the uses of memory identity and history made by the individuals.