Corpos, memórias e saberes inscritos na educação nos terreiros de candomblé da Bahia no tempo presente

Abstract

The cosmoperception of the education of bodies and with bodies in Candomblé terreiros erases the abyssal lines of hegemonic Cartesian thought. This research focuses on the successful experiences of three schools located in Terreiros de Candomblé in Bahia, in the cities of Salvador, Camaçari and Valença, which were fostered in the ideal of ecological education for the liberation and learning of identity territories. Candomblé is a religion of African origin that crosses the human and citizen formation of the people who are part of the terreiro community, in this “non-place” body-history-nature are complex and inseparable elements. For the development of the investigation, the methodology of the present time was adopted for connecting narratives of the past and present through the understanding that knowledge is built in motion. Anchored in the paths of Southern Epistemologies, it is necessary to legitimize and rescue the power of bodies (from the far south) in the production of knowledge. Bodies, memories and knowledge is an invitation to sully other narratives, to look at the implementation of Law 10.639/03 and 11.645/08, with successful experiences in the fight for affirmative, reparative and ecological education. The mandatory teaching of Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous African History and Culture, even though it faces structural difficulties for implementation, has produced and produces epistemological shifts from objectified bodies to bodies of historical protagonism, so such successful experiences, in addition to implementing an affirmative policy of historical reparation, produce and lead (plural) bodies to ecological and decentralized knowledge.