Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: SIMONE RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS GOMES

CONFLUENCE BETWEEN QUILOMBO DO MATÃO AND KAXARARI PEOPLE: RIVERS OF ANCESTRALITY AND WAYS OF LIFE

Ancestry, Ways of life, Ubuntu Philosophy, Good living, Confluence 

Appropriating humanistic geographic science, which allows us to expand into different areas of knowledge, we want to break with these prejudiced, racist, epistemicidal attitudes through our research that seeks to describe how the interactions of quilombolas and indigenous people with the place they inhabit can contribute to a more collective society, relational with nature. To this end, we created some guiding questions: would there be a way to identify Ubuntu in the quilombo? How and what practices would be related to Ubuntu? On the other hand, how can we recognize Good Living among indigenous people? Is it possible to establish a convergence between the elements of Ubuntu, in the quilombo, and Bem Viver, in an indigenous village, to think about the concepts of ancestry and place of experience in their relationship with nature? To answer this problem, we defined Quilombo do Matão – PB and the Indigenous Territory of the Kaxarari Peoples (TIK) – RO as research fields for the period from 2021 to 2024. We present a written organization of the research into four sections. In the first section, we talk about the theoretical path of the research in which we expose the concepts of Ubuntu in African Philosophy and the indigenous worldview of Good Living among Amerindian peoples. In the second section, we present the theoretical methodological procedures and the research trajectory in which we explain the category of analysis of geographic science, through the choice of place that led us to identify from the perspective of cultural humanist Geography on the basis of Yi-Fu Tuan's theoretical line and Lívia de Olveira who, in her discussion of the notion of the lived world in which each person constructs and elaborates their spatial meanings through a multiplicity of senses. The methodological approach is Dardel's phenomenology based on his conception of the human-earth essence that describes the link that unites humans with the physical nature of the planet. Based on Dardel's phenomenological method, we opened a methodological and epistemological approach with the quilombola Nego Bispo, who, through his notes, called biointeraction and confluence. Therefore, in the third section we specifically describe how the denomination of Nego Bispo, biointeraction, is experienced in Quilombo do Matão and the Kaxarari Indigenous Territory. In the fourth section, we appropriate Nego Bispo's speech in his experience of rivers that we call the Quilombo do Matão and the Kaxarari indigenous territory of rivers, which with their strength of ancestry and way of life, converge.