Consolao pueblo afrodescendiente de venezuela: actualmente macuquita

Abstract

This article focuses on explaining the construction of contemporary cultural and ancestral identities of the inhabitants of the village of Macuquita, an Afro-Venezuelan descendant community of a free black people, located in the Guzmán Guillermo parish up to the Falconian capital, Falcón state, Venezuela. The objective is to understand the possible existing relationships between the current religious meanings and the social memory of the foundational past of this community, recalled by its inhabitants in the different ceremonies they practice. From an ethnographic perspective, we explore the sociocultural relationships that the Macuquita people trace in their ancestral culture, their songs that identify their customs, among others. Finally, it is concluded that the identity processes of the Macuquita are associated with mechanisms of resistance, negotiation and cultural autonomy, developed in the past and reactivated in the present.