Abstract
Through the perspective of the culture psychology of semiotic dynamics, the chapter explores the aesthetic dimension of human experience and its relation of inseparability memory and imagination as psychological processes. Imagining and remembering are based on a shared construction of affective atmospheres. Every future and past imagination or memory is colored by an affective tone and the affective tone is emerging through pleromatic signs produced in collective activities such as making or even hearing music. To illuminate the theoretical framework, the second part of the chapter presents an empirical report about the meaning of the Quilombo culture as part of Brazilian culture.
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Community of Afro-descendants originated by groups of escaped slaves in the historical period of Colonial Brazil.
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Black slavery, whether African or Afro-descendant, was the main source of labor for at least three centuries in Brazil. It officially lasted from about 1530 to 1888, being abolished as a legal institution by the signing of the Golden Law by Princess Isabel. It covered the Colonial Period (1530–1815), the United Kindom (1815–1822), and the Empire one (1822–1889). The first form of labor used by the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil was indigenous slavery. But this never had considerable economic value; therefore, it was not used in large scale, being abolished in the late eighteenth century by the Marquis of Pombal (de Assis Costa, 2010).
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Certainly, speaking is only one of several dimensions of language, however, primordial in a study of domination and otherness, since speech as a phenomenon presupposes some fundamental characteristics of the speaking subject, for example: “(…) being able to employ one Syntax, to possess the morphology of this or that language, but it is above all to assume a culture, to bear the weight of a civilization” (Fanon, 2008, p. 33).
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For more information on the process of regularization of lands “quilombolas,” see de Carvalho (2016).
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Pinheiro, M.A., da Silva, J.F., Tateo, L. (2020). The Aesthetic Experience as a Central Pathway in Understanding Memory and Imagination – The Case of Quilombo Barro Branco. In: Lyra, M.C., Wagoner, B., Barreiro, A. (eds) Imagining the Past, Constructing the Future. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64175-7_6
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