This thesis is an anthropological study that seeks to understand the constitution and meanings of the Quilombola Identity Games (Q.I.J.) in the intra and intercomunities of the Quilombola People of Salvaterra, Marajó Island, Pará. The QIJ was created in the
year 2004 in the context of the process in which 15 communities defined themselves as quilombolas in the municipality of Salvaterra. Every year since then, in November, a different quilombola community hosts the Games, when in addition to the hundreds
of people who will attend the event, the quilombola communities of Salvaterra and
other municipalities in Marajó send their delegations to represent them at the Games, mobilizing 400 to 600 quilombolas who are sheltered, fed and organized to participate in various types of sports during the day and in "cultural nights" and "nights of black
beauty" presentations during the nights, over the four days of celebration. Ethnography has shown that this festival was constituted as a "quilombola political project" at the same time with, against and beyond the State, whose objective was/is
to integrate the Marajoara quilombola communities in the context of struggles for socioterritorial rights. Because it lasts over time, because of its scope and capacity to mobilize people and resources, the meanings of this quilombola festival have
expanded over time, being seen by quilombola interlocutors as time/space dedicated to the "black conscience"; to the fight against racism and as a place to show "their culture". Furthermore, in their preparation and implementation, the Q.I.J. has mobilized the quilombola social movement networks of Marajó, creating new spaces in the communities: the quilombola headquarters; contributed to the formation of new leaders for the quilombola social movement networks, as well as to the expansion of quilombola self-definition processes, especially among young people from these
communities, which constitutes the most numerous age group present at these festivities. Based on the ethnography of the Q.I.J., I discuss the theory of the party and I suggest thinking of the party as a "Societal Power" that, in addition to reproducing, has (re)created and transformed these collectivities. The conclusions of this study
show that festive socialities through creative imagination, aesthetic emotions and the work of bodies have produced other images, landscapes, creating other (imaginary) atmospheres that have contributed to a kind of political refoundation of these communities, giving rise to, in countless creative ways, the contemporary quilombos in Marajó.
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