Urban interventions, memories and conflicts
2013; Associação Brasileira de Antropologia; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1809-4341
Autores Tópico(s)Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies
ResumoThis paper discusses the creation of an arena for political and moral recognition stirred by the revitalization of Rio de Janeiro's Port Zone: the landmarking of Pedra do Sal as historic and religious Afro-Brazilian monument by residents who claimed legal ownership of several properties in the area, affirming that it is an and the site is a remnant quilombo community. The Quilombo of Pedra do Sal became one of the most controversial battles for ethnic recognition in Brazil, because it explored possibilities for broadening the constitutional concept of quilombo. These possibilities would include, the plea for recognition of an ethnic territory in an urban context; the construction of history of territorial occupation based on mythological narrative; and territorial demarcation based on cultural heritage conceived as the remnant symbol of generic black city and, therefore, without presumed heirs.
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