Brincadequê: brinquedos e brincadeiras no quilombo de Lajeado

Abstract

This research has the goal to analyze the traditional knowledge that is manifested in toys and jokes that run through different generations and integrate the life of the Quilombola Community of Lajeado. The study focused on this Amazon community, located in the rural area of the municipality of Dianópolis-TO. We tried to achieve the specific objectives: to identify toys and jokes in different generations in the Quilombola Community of Lajeado; verify the permanence and changes in relation to toys and jokes in different generations; and traditional knowledge present in toys and jokes in different generations in the Lajeado Quilombola Community. For this purpose, the ethnographic perspective was taken as a methodology, combined with oral history. One research took a qualitative approach with field practices, participant observation, conversation circles and intergenerational workshops. The interlocutors of this work were (23) twenty-three quilombola remnants, between 6 and 85 years of age, who are people referring to four generations existing in the community. The theoretical support that supported the constructed argument was: Kishimoto (1994), Adriana Friedmann (1992), Johan Huizinga (2000), Gilles Brougère (2010), Walter Benjamin (1984), Arruti (2010), Munanga (1996), Malinowski (1975), Laraia (2014), Bá Hampaté (2010), Bosi (2012), Alberti (2000), Meihy (2002), Ferdnand Tonnies (1957), among other scholars. At the end of the work, it is concluded that the traditional knowledge that is present in the toys and jokes that permeate different generations of people in the Community are essential for the maintenance of the quilombola culture.