Banca de DEFESA: MARIA DE LOURDES PAZ BEZERRA

THE MENDONÇAS IN THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY OF AMARELÃO:

 Cultural and symbolic reflections for Physical Education

Body, Indigenous Culture, Symbols, Toré, Physical Education.

I urge all of you to tread the sensitive and cultural body ways. This assignment focuses on indigenous culture into Mendonças’ group which is settled on João Câmara Town in Rio Grande do Norte State. In this settlement occurs studies about the Mendoças’ in Amarelão region, cultural reflexions and symbols ex Physical Education. The Comprehension is based on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological method which quests an understanding of senses coming from the structural comprehension of the phenomenon in Mendonças’ experience and other ones into the groups. As a justification, the searching is to enlarge the importance of the indigenous cause for the Physical Education that points there are few studies about the indigenous issue and Physical Education and it is required to spread out that theme to the academics. Through body practicing developed by The Mendonças also intending to answer the assignment purpose theme following specific goals: knowing the cultural and body practicing even symbologies in the Mendonças indigenous group, realizing the cultural practices and symbols into Toré reflecting the importance of the indigenous cultural knowledge for Physical Education. The Phenomenological method is a reflexive way to understand the existential and sensitive body full of cultural meaning and senses. Through dialoguing Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy (2018) realizing the phenomenon of the body into existential experiences in the world. These meanings bring out the comprehension about the body concepts, culture and symbols, knowledge acqurired in a phenomenological body. It is necessary to get the references in Mearleau-Ponty (1991); (2018), Nóbrega (2008; 2010; 2016), Zumthor (2002; 1993) and Medeiros (2008). About the indigenous culture knowledge there is Pereira (2019), Cavignac and Alveal Studies (2019), Santos Júnior (2008) and Guerra (2007; 2011), which provides dialogues about social and ethnic organization such discourses offered predefined informations and specifical details about indigenous settlement in Rio Grande do Norte State from Mendonças’ universe until their claims and self-affirmation rights and social identity being an indigenous people.