O processo contracolonial da etnogênese indígena como metodologia de um curso de formação sobre saberes: espiritualidade, cultura alimentar, medicina tradicional, corporeidade e arte

Abstract

Through the restless heart of educator Angela Anacé, the opportunity arises to build a Training Course, created in the Taba dos Anacé Indigenous Reserve, thinking about the valorization of traditional knowledge. Dona Angela Anacé is a fighting person who dreams of leaving her ancestral knowledge to future generations. To this end, the Training Course will be divided into five “generative themes”, using this term coined by Freire (1987, p. 103): spirituality, food culture, traditional medicine, art and corporeality, in which the approach to themes developed will take place through indigenous empirical knowledge. Their practices will be handled by the ancestry cultivated in their territory, strengthening indigenous culture through educational experiences within the Anacé Reserve, which is currently located in Caucaia, but originally its territory was distributed in two villages: Bolso, in São Gonçalo do Amarante and Matões, in Caucaia. The Reserve was created after the signing of a term of commitment between the Government of the State of Ceará, Funai, Petrobras, the Federal Public Ministry, the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil and the indigenous leaders representing the 163 Anacé families. This work seeks to study indigenous culture through Anacé ethnogenesis. We will start by observing the construction of a Training Course on traditional Anacé knowledge, moving on to its application. The focus of the research will be the methodological process developed from the understanding of an education that combats fundamentalism and conservatism in their exclusionary and violent forms of discrimination in human, teaching and student training. In this study, we intend as a general objective to investigate the methodological process of the Training Course from the perspective of Anacé ethnogenesis, and as specific objectives to study the course's training proposal; identify popular knowledge as scientific knowledge; and prepare a booklet as a guide for the recognition of ancestral knowledge in a counter-colonial vision. For this study, the locus of research will be the Taba dos Anacé Indigenous Reserve, located on Rodovia do Garrote, number 85, in the town of Jurema, municipality of Caucaia, in the state of Ceará. The research has as participants the Anacé leadership group, the group of Anacé indigenous teachers and non-indigenous teachers participating in the course. To systematize the experiences, the methodology of Holliday (2006) will be used according to which it advocates the holding of “listening forums” as a methodological elaboration of the Anacé Training Course. To this end, five workshops will be promoted, one for each of the “generating themes” proposed by Dona Angela: spirituality, food culture and traditional medicine and alongside these two other themes based on the transversal disciplines worked at the Anacé People's Right to Learn Indigenous School: spirituality, art and corporeality, totaling five generating themes, since spirituality is present in both blocks. The “listening forums” will serve to determine the concepts of the generating themes, thinking about their applicability, inside and outside the School. For data collection, we will use case study techniques by focusing on the complexity of the social phenomenon studied. To process the data collected in these forums, we will use the content analysis method, when through context analysis, we will prepare the content analysis, defining the directions of the research.