MEMORIES AND STORIES: MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL HERITAGE OF THE BALATIPONÉ-UMUTINA PEOPLE
Balatiponé, Material and immaterial culture, education.
This master's dissertation “Memories and histories: material and immaterial heritage of the Balatiponé-Umutina people, reports part of the millenary material and immaterial culture of our ancestors bringing our history. Its objective is to understand the pedagogical relationships and the inclusion of the material and immaterial culture of the Balatiponé people in the school curriculum of the Julá Paré school. To carry it out, we took the approach of qualitative research, participant recording the reports of the elders of the community, the leadership and the participation of the students in the cultural week that is the moment that the material and immaterial patrimonies of my people were worked a lot. We cannot forget the knowledge and tasks of our ancestry, which historically suffered a lot with colonization, with that I present here the experience, of being Balatiponé, the daily life, the memory, the spirituality of the people, and also the activities of the Cultural Week . The systematization in the production of texts and drawings has the participation of students, our students participate in research, activities, studies, and systematization, they learn together with experienced people in the community, this bond of being together is very important in the teaching process learning of our students and for what the school has been working on in valuing the whole common culture. The research shows the observation and the look of the students themselves regarding the transformation of some techniques in the making of some objects, the valorization of the raw material of our territory, recognizing the importance of keeping alive the material and immaterial culture regardless of any introduction of element. that comes to be inserted in some production or way of doing, living and doing the cultural practices. Listening to our elders, living in the cultural week helps to recognize our 'material and immaterial heritage, a way of not losing our roots and having an indigenous look with great wisdom as our ancestors lived even in the midst of so many transformations. Working on Umutina knowledge and practices at school is to strengthen the Balatiponé identity.