(Re)tomando a escola: reflexões sobre educação escolar indígena entre os Pataxó Hãhãhãe

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the indigenous education, which the analysis focused on the experience of Pataxó Hãhãhãe community, located in the southern portion of the state of Bahia. Recognized in the 1988 Federal Constitution, the right of indigenous peoples to their cultural reproduction made the school afforded to indigenous peoples become the subject of debate and has constituted as the subject of significant discussion in anthropology. This work focuses on the analysis of the central feature of this formal education process geared to indigenous peoples: interculturalism. Therefore, the issues are addressed in the history of education and their contact with indigenous peoples in Brazil, as well as the conceptual discussion of interculturalism within the anthropological literature, and the experiences of these people with school. The argument put forward here is that multiple intercultural processes of appropriation of school by indigenous peoples, are structured by the historical relations of power and domination. Put such a premise, the analysis of the historical experience of Pataxó Hãhãhãe with the school, seeks to record new data to the anthropological debate on the issue and contribute to the discussion of the same.