A festa do moqueado: um rito de passagem e de reafirmação cultural do povo Guajajara-Tenetehara.

Abstract

The following research proposes to analyze how the female rite of passage experienced by the Festa do Moqueado in Guajajara-Tenetehara villages contributes to indigenous education as a cultural reaffirmation of these people. For this purpose, the methodology applied on this research is based on qualitative ethnography, which leads the journey to Lagoa Quieta village, in Arariboia Indigenous Land, located in the state of Maranhão, becoming a major significance for the development of this paper, since it allowed the researches of Laboratório de Línguas Indígenas situated on the Universidade Federal do Norte do Tocantins actively participate in the Festa do Moqueado. Thus, the materials used as sources of analysis were the theories of ALBUQUERQUE and ALMEIDA (2012), understanding how the cultural diversity present in the indigenous school education process occurs in the tribes; the anthropologist GENNEP (2011) who sought to define and classify the term rite; LARAIA (2020) to explain the scope of the word culture; and ZANNONI (1999) that unravels the social, historical and cultural aspects of the Guajajara-Tenetehara people.To introduce a deeper view, the present paper is arranged into four topics, the first being directed to the contextualization of the Guajajara people; the second focused on the Festa do Moqueado; the third explains the methodology used in the research development, and the fourth is dedicated to conclusions. The essay results rely upon the context revolving around indigenous knowledge performed in the ritual under an identity perspective.