CASA DE PAPEL : significados da escolarização Awá

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the introduction of schooling among the Awá and the relationship that people have been building with the school institution. It takes as reference the school's proposed operating and conceptions of performers, staff, observers and Awá leaders about the schooling process in progress. Used as sources the bibliography on the Awá, documents drawn up on the process of schooling and records effected during the fieldwork. The Awá are a recent contact people, which until the 1960s lived a hunter-gatherer way of life with frequent displacements. Since the 1970s began to be contacted by the National Indian Foundation that aldeou in different indigenous lands. After contact, the education initiatives were implemented from the late 1990s are currently experiencing two distinct schooling processes, conducted by different institutions in two indigenous villages: Guajá and Awa. The analysis carried out in the dissertation assumes that the introduction of school for the Awá expresses a form of coloniality of power and knowledge that presupposes education as the only possible order.