INY GRAPHICS: BODY PAINTING AND RITUALS AS PEDAGOGICAL PROCESSES
Indigenous Education. Indigenous Culture. Iny (Karajá) people.
The objective of this research is for young people and students in the school community to preserve, revitalize and maintain their ancestral culture of body painting, the graphics of the Iny Karajá people. The use of body painting in the Indigenous society of the Iny people is particularly important. The graphics are used during the traditional cultural festival, in all rituals and festivities of the Inymahadu people (Iny people). Painting on some part of the body is an identification of the Iny Indigenous people. Originally, the Iny people used graphics in their daily lives, in ceremonial festivals and rituals held in the village (Krehawa). On the day of the rite of passage from boy to teenager, boys, mothers, aunts, or uncles would do graphic body painting on the boy, girl, teenager, pre-teen (weryrybo, jyre, bodu, ijadokoma) so that they dance and sing at the traditional hetohoky festival. The painting represents joy, hope is the meaning for Iny people. Each graphic has its historical meaning, so in the family and at school the teaching of graphics is of paramount importance, for young Iny's learning, to maintain the family tradition, to always maintain this work of painting alignment, of the people's graphics. Iny. This research was conducted based on written observation of everyday cultural practices, using autoethnographic methodology and its educational product is the production of a pedagogical notebook that encourages graphics in Indigenous schools.