A Dotora da Mumbuca e a trajetória de uma neoliderança: a visibilidade de uma personagem e o silenciamento de uma história num contexto de desenvolvimento

Abstract

This paper studied aspects of the Quilombola Mumbuca community, located in Jalapão-TO, with the aim of addressing their relationship with the media and their strategies for survival, linked to development. There was emphasis on the performance of Dotora, community leadership that here was called neoleadership, when entering and in tune with the context of neocommunity, which explains the contemporary condition of quilombo remnants in Brazil. The research is qualitative, with field trips being made, two of them with immersion in the community, using ethnographic techniques, such as participant observation, field journal and in-depth interviews, with Dotora as the main interlocutor, in addition to three women, selected in the search. For this work, in addition to bibliographic research, I selected nationally broadcast television programs in which Dotora appears, and the analyzes are made based on her point of view and that of the other interviewees. The results point to the idea that the Mumbuca community interacts with the media, in order to partially take ownership of its agendas, in an attempt to also schedule topics of interest to them. In this sense, Mumbuca tends to silence aspects of his reality and highlight others, creating a harmony between his objectives and, possibly, those of the media. Such attitudes show relevance to the community in order to make it attractive as a tourist destination linked to traditions, the main economic activity at the moment.