TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES AT THE JENIPAPO-KANINDÉ INDIGENOUS SCHOOL IN CONTEXT (S): IDENTITY, MEMORY AND BORDERS.
Indigenous Education. Differentiated School. Identities. Culture. Ceará
This research look for understand how traditional knowledge and practices occurs at the Jenipapo-Kanindé indigenous school, in different contexts, located in the Indigenous Land (TI) Lagoa Encantada, in the municipality of Aquiraz-Ceará. For this purpose, I briefly reconstruct the process of ethnic-cultural reorganization, of emergence of “indigenous groups” in this state, and among the Jenipapo-Kanindé ethnic group, presenting some reflections based on Frederick Barth on identities, ethnic groups and their borders, to then, introduce discussions on indigenous schools as spaces of borders, between indigenous and non-indigenous knowledge. Seeking to contribute to the debate in the area of education and anthropology. In addition, the period chosen to carry out this study covered the years 2018-2021, at first, initial interviews for the construction of the research project, specific field visits to the village Jenipapo-Kanindé and, later, field monitoring and mapping through the social networks, interviews, online questionnaire. Making a movement from the state scale to the local, articulating with the national context, highlighting the political and strategic character of Indigenous School Education, as a form of ethnic-cultural reaffirmation of these groups.