Pathways of belonging to the People of Gerais: crop production, religion and ethnic mobilization in motion

Veredas do pertencimento ao Povo do Gerais: roça, religião e mobilização étnica em movimento

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https://doi.org/10.36920/esa-v27n1-8

Abstract

This article intends to analyze how the sentiment of belonging to Gerais Velho, a black rural community in the backlands of Minas Gerais, enfolds land, religion and black identity through the roaming of their inhabitants. Stemming from an ethnographic perspective, it uses the movements of the Gerais Velho inhabitants to shift the idea of belonging from the analytic frames of fixation, common in the treatment of identities. Thus, it traces the pathways by which autonomy and liberty make sense to a life experienced as mobility.
Keywords: belonging; farm; religion; blackness; mobility.

BENITES, Luiz Felipe Rocha. Veredas do pertencimento ao Povo do Gerais: roça, religião e mobilização étnica em movimento. Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, v. 27, n. 1, p. 167-184, fev. 2019.

Submitted in october 2017.
Accepted in january 2018.

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  • Luiz Felipe Rocha Benites, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Brasil

    PhD in Social Anthropology from the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (MN / UFRJ), Associate Professor IV of Anthropology at the Multidisciplinary Institute of the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IM / UFRRJ) and member of the Research Group Nucleus of Studies Rural (NuERs) of the Fluminense Federal University (UFF).
    E-mail: felipebenites74@gmail.com
    http://lattes.cnpq.br/0877368955820970

fevereiro a maio de 2019

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2019-02-01

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Vol. 27 No. 1: Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura (february to may 2019)

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