KNOWLEDGE AND FLAVORS IN INDIGENOUS SCHOOL: A STUDY ON TRADITIONAL KAYABI FOOD IN THE KURURUZINHO VILLAGE
Keywords: Food. Indigenous Culture. Indigenous School Feeding. Teaching. Traditional Recipes.
This research was developed from a pedagogical concern regarding the absence of traditional Kayabi food in the curriculum and other school activities. It also stems from the increasing presence of industrialized products in the diet of younger generations, including in school meals and encouraged by teaching materials. Aiming to discover, record, and catalog the names and preparation processes of traditional Kayabi food, a participatory methodology was organized, including direct observation of documents, student and teacher testimonies, textbooks, and other materials present at the school. Thus, a survey of the knowledge and dietary practices carried out at the school was conducted, and traditional knowledge was recorded through oral history and the memory of elders, who still speak their mother tongue and hold the practical knowledge of ancestral cuisine. This work results in the technical mapping of the preparation processes of forgotten historical recipes and exposes the severe shortage of specific and contextualized teaching materials in the community school, which needs resources to incorporate indigenous knowledge about cultural food into both oral traditions and pedagogical practices.