“Caminho dos búzios”: roteiro etnográfico por templos religiosos de matriz afro-brasileira como proposta para o ensino de história

Abstract

This dissertation, developed within the Professional Graduate Program in History Teaching, was carried out with the support of the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 00, presents as its theme an academic reflection on the importance of studying religions of Afro-Brazilian origin and their relevance as a framework for Afrocentric History Teaching. The research object selected was the daily practices, memories, and experiences transmitted orally in the Afro-Indigenous religious temples of Junqueiro-AL, analyzing how, epistemologically, the teaching of histories of struggle/resistance and the crossing of the Atlantic, the social hierarchy, the rules of conduct, and moral, ethical, and religious values occurs. As this proposal involves a consideration of ancestry and African Oral Tradition, particularly the categories of the traditionalist and the griot, I understood that this reflection maintains proximity to the research object, and its relevance lies in the importance of connecting historically reconstructed knowledge and practices in the diaspora and their correlations with history and memory. African oral tradition is based on the idea of man, place, and universe; To situate it globally, it is necessary to study it from its creation and transmission. To this end, I sought support in the methodology of Oral Tradition, in academic analyses of oral history, and in the connection between interviewee and interviewer and in recorded testimony. The legacy of the New History weakened the rigidity of Positivism, thus focusing on the historical investigation of invisibilized groups or individual experiences in the present time, in everyday life. Concomitantly, I used the methodology of ethnography, based on interviews and fieldwork, configured in the mapping and scripting of the temples. The dissertation resulted in the production of the Open Educational Resource (OER), "Caminho dos Búzios" (Path of the Cowrie Shells), a technological tool containing data, maps, information, teaching resources, and support for the entire school community. The dissertation will be available on the ProfHistória website to support teaching practices in the format of Dissemination of Historical Narrative. I hope that this dissertation contributes to the teaching of History for the Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations, making visible the silences historically produced.