Ditos e feitos de troncos velhos Tremembés de Almofala - CE: saberes que brotam da terra, do céu, dos rios e do mar

Abstract

I and the tremembés. From encounters and re-encounters the desire to research is born, a research done in partnership, like the torém dance. In this movement, I search to understand the ways of learning-teaching of the old trunks from Almofala – CE in relation to the knowledge of the tradition that “sprout” from the land, from the sky, from the rivers and from the sea, and that materializes in their sayings and deeds. So many enchantments and teachings the old trunks bring us: the speech, the silence, the gesture, the advice, the “long face”, everything is transmission. What about the Tremembés Indigenous Schools (Escolas Indígenas Tremembés – EIT’s), what are they doing to preserve and give continuinity to this knowledge? To help me in this dance, I invite to the torém circle the thinking-dancers, with wich I dialogue, thereby composing the theoretical circle. They are: Freire (1983,2001); Figueiredo (2007,2015); Brandão (1993,2020); Oliveira Jr (1988); Larrosa (2015); Benjamim (1994); Bosi (1994); Quijano (2005) e Walsh (2008), among others. Together we make a “dialogical torém” in order to know about experience, dialogicity and (dis)coloniality. “The old trunks” set the tone of the dance and tell us many stories. Later on, I re-tell them, that is, I lend my writing to show the ways of learning-teaching that stem from family and community conviviality, from divine providence intervention and from the experiences with the elements of nature.