Urban interventions, memories and conflicts

Black heritage and the revitalization of Rio de Janeiro's Port Zone

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2494412
AutoresRoberta Sampaio Guimarães (0000-0003-3393-4398, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen10
Número1
Páginas208-227
Fecha de publicación2013-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
EditorialAssociação Brasileira de Antropologia (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.1590/s1809-43412013000100011
OpenAlexW1983326055
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412013000100011
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas7

This 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 a 'historic and religious Afro-Brazilian monument' by residents who claimed legal ownership of several properties in the area, affirming that it is an 'ethnic territory' 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 a quilombo. These possibilities would include, the plea for recognition of an ethnic territory in an urban context; the construction of a history of territorial occupation based on mythological narrative; and a territorial demarcation based on a cultural heritage conceived as the remnant symbol of a generic 'black city' and, therefore, without presumed heirs

Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Cultural heritage · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Mythology · Narrative · Plea · Political science · Politics · Port (circuit theory · Sociology · Symbol (formal · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law