Banca de DEFESA: BIANCA COELHO MOURA

“NO BEM QUERER ENCANTADO": The Storytellers of the Pankararu Indigenous People in Intercultural Dialogue with Agroecology, Health and Indocentric Ethnic-Territorial Development

Pankararu People; Orality; Memory; Agroecology; Health; Indocentric Ethnic-Territorial Development.

Understanding the sciences of Indigenous Peoples is something challenging and thought-provoking, especially when one seeks to reflect on their ancestral knowledge, rites and the countless ways in which they use their know-how in the daily life of their territories. In this perspective, this thesis proposed an intercultural and countercolonial dialogue to understand the oral narratives inherent to the Pankararu Indigenous People, as well as their ancestral and cultural practices, in view of the existing connections between their know-how and academic concepts related to development ethnic-territorial, agroecology and health. From this perspective, a qualitative and dialogical approach was chosen, through semi-structured interviews, using interpretive discourse analysis, precisely to approach these connections, seeking to systematize them, listing their dimensions, their cultural flows and his techniques, which have been perpetuated over the centuries in the Pankararu territory. The result of the entire epistemological path culminated in the writing of the thesis, which presents other perspectives regarding the concepts of health, agroecology and ethnodevelopment or territorial development, in addition to the elaboration of scripts for webseries - presented as final products of the research -, whose themes are addressed reflect on the ethnic complexity of the territory, bearing in mind the phenomena inherent to the life and cosmoperception of this Indigenous People who inhabit the semi-arid region of Pernambuco.