JOVENS KALUNGA: A ROMARIA DE SÃO JOÃO IDENTIDADE E RESISTÊNCIA DA CULTURA QUILOMBOLA EM MONTE ALEGRE DE GOIÁS-GO

Abstract

This work describes a qualitative research carried out using the Ideal research model in the perspective of Max Weber, conducted with young Kalunga leaders involved in the São João Pilgrimage in the Quilombola Sucurí community located in the Municipality of Monte Alegre de Goiás. understanding: like the young Kalunga, they see and perceive themselves in relation to the Pilgrimage and its representativeness as a space for traditional practices of identity and resistance of the Kalunga people. The data collected during the research demonstrated that the feeling of belonging, identity and resistance on the part of the young people of the quilombola community mentioned above, has been shaken by modernity and the growing technological advance that has reached the community. In the same sense, it became evident that the more young people seek to continue their studies, entering the academic world, knowledge has reinforced their Afro- Brazilian belonging and identity in them.