Medeiros, Rosie Marie Nascimento deBezerra, Maria de Lourdes Paz2023-06-122023-06-122022-12-14BEZERRA, Maria de Lourdes Paz. Os Mendonça na Comunidade Indígena do Amarelão: reflexões culturais e simbólicas para a Educação Física. Orientador: Rosie Marie de Nascimento Medeiros. 2022. 78f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação Física) - Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2022.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/52664I urge to tread the sensitive and cultural body ways. This present assignment quests for cultural and symbolic reflections for the Physical Education that focuses on the study of the indigenous culture into Mendonças‘ group which is settled on Amarelão community, a district of João Câmara Town in Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil. We seek for an understanding of senses from the comprehension of structures of the phenomenon in Mendonças‘ living style and existential experiences in the group. As a justification, the searching is to enlarge the importance of the indigenous issue for the Physical Education that points there are few studies about this one in Physical Education and it is required to spread out that theme to the academical area. Through body practicing developed by The Mendonças also intending to answer the assignment purpose theme, we search for pondering about the senses of the Mendonças‘ cultural symbolisms and practicing in the indigenous settlement at Amarelão district and to bring on evidence how those knowledges could contribute to Physical Education. The Phenomenological method is a reflexive way to understand the existential and sensitive body full of cultural meaning and senses. Through building a dialogue about MerleauPonty‘s philosophy (1961-2018) realizing the phenomenon of the body into existential experiences in the world. About these webs of meanings bring out the comprehension about the body concepts, culture and symbols, knowledge acqurired in a phenomenological body. Therefore, such assignment provided a reflection of the different cultural expressions about the indigenous body and how that wisdom can be added to Physical Education. The body practicing and experiences lead us to understand the know-how in body, culture and human movement that presents different expressions ways into an indigenous body that shows mores and traditions that lead to cultural and symbolic features. It is clear and evident that the Physical Education knowledges dialogues with The Mendonças‘ indigenous culture and the bodily expressiveness in Toré ritual that brings a body of working in circle dancing, added to other material elements as cocar, maraca. Adding the body practicing, sports, soccer, jaguar game, they allow us to reflect all Mendonças‘ activities and experiences are beyond the human movement. That brings up each existential experience in a world full of senses and cultural meanings. There is so a better valuation of the culture through experiences and body practicing.Acesso AbertoCultura indígenaCorpoSímbolos - ToréEducação FísicamasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::EDUCACAO FISICA