Análise pós-colonial da agricultura e da pesca na comunidade quilombola do Engenho Siqueira/ Rio Formoso/ PE

Abstract

The general objective was to analyze the importance of traditional knowledge for the food security of the Engenho Siqueira quilombola community in Rio Formoso-PE, from a postcolonial perspective, through an intercultural dialogue between scientific and non-scientific knowledge, which made possible the ecology of knowledge and the exchange of social experiences. Our specific objectives were to analyze the socioecological practices, agriculture and the relationship of the community with the mangrove of the Rio Formoso estuary. As a methodology we initially developed a postcolonial bibliographic survey, based on the experiences obtained and explored by the authors studied, and we used the participant observation research, which characterized it as a social research. Our community visits were made at the headquarters of the Quilombola Association of Engenho Siqueira, establishing an intercultural dialogue with the quilombolas, in order to include and update all information obtained from the bibliographic survey. To clarify the ways of food production in the community, we highlight three quilombola voices, who are former quilombola residents of the community: Cristina Correia da Silva, 48, fisherwoman and farmer; Moacir Correia de Santana, 48, fisherman, farmer, and founder of the community's quilombola museum; Cláudio de Freitas Pajeú, 36, a geography teacher who has taught at the community school and was president of the Quilombola Association. Finally, through postcolonial analysis, the importance of maintaining quilombola identity as a local source of traditional knowledge and knowledge in ancestral agriculture and fisheries, and which were primarily responsible for making this community a quilombola heritage.