COLLECTIVE MEMORY AS AN EMANCIPATING STRATEGY FOR CULTURAL SURVIVAL OF THE BLACK COMMUNITIES OF GAMARRA CESAR
COLLECTIVE MEMORY AS AN EMANCIPATING STRATEGY FOR CULTURAL SURVIVAL OF THE BLACK COMMUNITIES OF GAMARRA CESAR
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DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.5583292314086
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Palavras-chave: Black communities, cultural diversity, cultural identity, collective memory.
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Keywords: Black communities, cultural diversity, cultural identity, collective memory.
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Abstract:
This article contributes to the construction of the historical memory of black communities from the study of the logic of maroonage, palenques, black towns, their survival practices and their struggles for recognition up to the present. It is an investigative advance on the construction of the doctoral thesis "Cultural identities of the black communities of Gamarra Cesar", to identify the origin of the black communities settled on the banks of the Rio Grande de la Magdalena in the municipality of Gamarra Cesar, as an element of their cultural identity and the construction of their collective memory. This document is the product of a qualitative investigation, under the understanding of phenomena and meanings of social reality, within the hermeneutic approach; however, it is necessary in the rigor of Action Research, to mark a field route that contemplates the critical approach of Latin American studies such as the need for awareness approach, consolidated by Hugo Zemelman throughout his works and life. In addition, approaches are presented on the need to return to the origins of the Afro communities in the municipality of Gamarra, their struggle for the recognition of territorial rights, legitimized by their ancestral roots that are immersed in the need to comply with procedural requirements becoming in a utopia to exercise authority in their territories. In conclusion, the need to make visible the formative didactics of the community is configured, such as the narrative contained in the cantao dance that accompanies the tambora, on the way to the defense of knowledge and orality. It proposes to talk about emancipation from the construction of their collective community memory, as a practice of socio-historical survival, as peoples who transform their pain and suffering into songs of joy, shared in the chores of their daily lives.
- SANDRA DEL PILAR OTALVAREZ MARTINEZ