Narrativas orais Guajajara: acervo cultural e textualidades indígenas

Abstract

The Guajajara people, like other ethnic groups in Brazil, struggle to keep alive their traditions since the first contacts with the white people. The oral narratives of these people are the knowledge preserved in the memory of the oldest and passed down for generations. Law 11,645 / 2008 mandating the teaching of indigenous culture in Brazil, and the african-Brazilian and African in elementary and high schools. This fact drives the deepening of the studies of these cultures. The work developed here increases the discussions on indigenous culture, specifically the oral narratives of Guajajara ethnicity. This research presents a survey of Guajajara textualities and records of oral narratives in the villages of Araribóia ,region disposed between the municipalities of Grajaú and Arame in Maranhão. In the course of this writing this work will be presented the historical, cultural and social aspects of Tentehar and also issues relating to indigenous education in Maranhao. This study aims to insert these textualities in educational institutions through writing, so that these stories are used in villages and outside under a literary perspective. Therefore, this dissertation focuses on one Guajajara narrative: The story of the Bacurau, which will be described the process of the contacting with this story and the procedure of construction of the written text, based on listening experiences and analyse ancient writings in books found in villages. This study is also a way of preserving and disseminating cultural legacy. Thus, in this work are present the voices of an ancestry that remain alive today.