Children and childhood in quilombo territories in the paraense Amazon

Abstract

Among other issues, the study intends to give visibility to the voices, the games, the imagination, the traffic, the practices, the cultures of childhood of two groups of quilombola children who live in the Amazon of Pará. From the ethnography with children, we carried out a loving and committed listening to what children had to say about the games, toys and interactions they experience in these children's territories. Also, the narratives of children and two quilombola researchers make up the ethnographic text. Finally, the study reveals the quilombola communities of Itamoari and Bairro Alto from the perspective of children, expectations regarding what it means to be a child and to experience childhood in these Amazonian territories. With the children's permission, as we enter their universes, the study takes on a contour, a children's territory that reveals the cultures of quilombola childhood.