The quilombola and the cowboy

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2022.185555

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Quilombola, Peçanha, Minas Gerais – Brazil, Ethnography, Culture, Spirituality

Abstract

The artwork "The Quilombola and the Cowboy" (Painting, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm. Peçanha, Minas Gerais – Brazil. March 2021), along with its poem, was produced by the artist and researcher Filipe de Oliveira Maciel, through the ethnographic fieldwork, in execution, of the research "The Identity Process of the Quilombola Communities of Peçanha, Minas Gerais – Brazil: Oral History, Culture and Ethnicity", oriented by Prof. Dr. Marivaldo Aparecido de Carvalho. This research is carried out through PPGER/UFVJM, with support from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), Brazil. The artwork constitutes a process of performative transformation of the field diary into plastic arts, to manifest preliminary results of this research, which finds in the land, spirituality, and violence the main mechanisms of identity structuring in these quilombos. It is a mechanism of expression of languages, codes, rituals, historical trajectories, ancestral knowledge, and dialectical relations experienced ethnographically by the body-soul-researcher, aiming to express the unspeakable and to contribute to other dimensions of the production of anthropological science.

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Author Biographies

  • Filipe de Oliveira Maciel, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri

    Filipe de Oliveira Maciel is a Master's student in the Stricto sensu Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Rural Studies at the Federal University of Jequitinhonha and Mucuri Valleys (UFVJM). Bachelor in Agronomy (2014) in the José do Rosário Vellano University (Unifenas). Artistically, studied theater (2017) at the Instituto Nossa Senhora do Teatro Para as Artes (INST) in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and is a self-taught painter. Works actively in his scientific research, artistic-cultural production and agroecology, with emphasis on traditional peoples and communities in rural contexts, mainly in the Rio Doce, Jequitinhonha and Mucuri Valleys of Minas Gerais (Brazilian Southeast). His areas of interest are anthropology, identity studies, arts, culture and tradition. E-mail: filipe.oliveira@ufvjm.edu.br.

  • Marivaldo Aparecido de Carvalho, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri

    Marivaldo Aparecido de Carvalho: Doctorate (2006) and Master (2001) degrees in Sociology from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP). Graduated (1996) in Social Sciences from at UNESP Araraquara. Associate Professor at the Federal University of the Jequitinhonha and Mucuri Valleys. Lecturer at PPGSaSA FCBS/UFVJM, and PPGER FIH/UFVJM. Coordinator of the research group GEPIMG/UFVJM, working with the indigenous peoples of Minas Gerais: Maxakali, Pataxó and Pankararu. Experience and interest in the area of anthropology, with emphasis on indigenous ethnology, quilombola and rural population; working on the following themes: identity/ethnicity; resistance, education, nature/culture and anthropological theory. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2212-3995; marivaldo.aparecido@ufvjm.edu.br.

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2022-08-30

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2022)

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Gesture, image and sounds

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Maciel, Filipe de Oliveira, and Marivaldo Aparecido de Carvalho. 2022. “The Quilombola and the Cowboy”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 7 (1): e185555. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2022.185555.