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Abstract

The research aims to understand how the production of ancestral knowledge occurs in Quilombo Cocalinho, through the lindô and pagode dances. As methodology was used the Oral History with the theme in history of life. For data collection, we used semi-structured interviews with six guardians of these two cultural expressions. The pagode dance and the lindô dance are traditions linked to the religiosity of the Cocalinho Quilombo. They are cultural expressions that accompany the residents of the quilombo even before the migrations that culminated in the territoriality of the current quilombo located in the municipality of Santa Fé do Araguaia (TO). Research already carried out and published reports that the quilombo has found difficult to preserve its ancestral traditions due to factors such as the loss of part of the territory to landowners over the decades and the departure of the community residentes who left for the cities in Search of work. The theoretical contribution of this research and the analyzes of the interviews with the guardians of the cultural knowledge of the Cocalinho community made us understand their territorialities, their memories, their ways of existing and their poetics intertwined in the cultural expressions represented by the pagode and lindô dances. The results of this research showed that in the Quilombo Cocalinho the loss of territory, the culture, economiy and social transformations over the last decades contributed to the decline of ancient cultural practices such as the custom of baking cakes on the stone, reisadas and the pagode dance. However, the research also pointed out that the Quilombo Cocalinho still maintains strongly the old tradition of the lindô dance.