A produção de roça como saber tradicional quilombola: análise sobre o processo das atividades agrícolas na comunidade quilombola Canta Galo em Itapecuru-Mirim, no Maranhão

Abstract

The objective of this work is to understand the importance of production of swidden and its association with traditional quilombola knowledge, in the Canta Galo quilombola community, in the city of Itapecuru, state of Maranhão, Brazil, located between the road BR 135 and the railroad of Carajás. The city is 3km from both roads. For this, the dialectical method was used with support in the theory of historical materialism with the methodological procedures, composed by bibliographic and field research and circles of conversations among others were used as research instruments. In this research, the theoretical focus deals with the definitions and main debates about territory and territoriality, which are presented as factors of fundamental importance for the understanding of traditional communities, preferably quilombola communities, about which are demonstrated and discussed in the present study exposing certain concepts and explaining the history of communities in the country then, we will approach the Canta Galo community, by showing its geographic, historical aspects and its traditional knowledge, in which the production of swidden appears as this main knowledge, being part of the quilombola identity of that territory