Educação ancestral do meu povo Karirí Tapuia-Tarairiú

Abstract

The central objective of this research is to present orality as an educational strategy for culture. This work aims to systematize the traces of indigenous ancestral memory in key points of the semi-arid region of Paraíba, through the family narratives of my maternal and paternal roots. Having as object of study the ancestral education of my Karirí Tapuia-Tarairiú people, understanding that education is also learning about culture. Family narratives are worked here as sparks that activate ancestry, to show how orality is a strong mechanism of culture, which enhances what is passed on between different generations, through educational modes of resistance through ethnic culture. The methodology used for this work is qualitative, using narratives that make up orality as a socio-educational practice of semi-arid people, which makes use of different spheres of knowledge to compose multiple epistemologies of ancestry, as a dialogue of different knowledge. The way the narratives are worked on in the thesis does not intend to restrict these narratives to a single people from the semi-arid region, but rather they are narratives from different peoples who together form diverse cultures and multiple worldviews. Therefore, the main proposal established here is the sharing of knowledge, dialogue of knowledge, but with the living character of this memory, which is not just in the past, it is in the field of experience of the present, so to say that there are modes of experience, which are ancient and that provide a deep rooting with Mother Earth. This thesis contributes to the appreciation of ancestry through orality, in the form of family narratives, to the perpetuation and maintenance of the ethnic cultural tradition and to the strengthening of the resistance of these people, which represents one of the paths back to the most archaic roots of humanity, activating memories of ancestry that can converge to a human consciousness with the nature that we are part of.