MULTIPLE REALITIES AND ONTOLOGICAL POLITICS: ACTORS IN
RURAL BLACK COMMUNITY SENHOR DO BONFIM - (AREIA/PB- 2005-2018)
Ontological Policy; Quilombos; Multiple Realities
This thesis, inserted in the research line Culture, Heritage and Memory, aims to present
reflections on the identity process in the Black Community Senhor do Bonfim - Areia-PB,
between the years 2005 and 2018. The group, recognized as a quilombola community by the
Palmares Cultural Foundation (PCF) in 2005, started to organize itself politically around this
identity and, in this scenario, several other actants (human and non-human) emerged who act
and perform in the whole process. In order to do so, we will resort to the concepts of ontological
politics and multiple realities by Annemarie Mol (2002; 2008) in order to understand how
realities are multiple, fluid and constantly remodeled by heterogeneous agents in the process of
constituting the group. For this purpose, we will resort to various sources, relating them in a
dialogic way. These are: anthropological report, institutional documents, audiovisual sources,
oral reports and semi-structured questionnaires. However, at the same time, although they
appear as sources, in the course of our analysis they also become actants in the identity process,
considering that our perspective considers non-humans as active in the process.