Corporalidades e Memória Lúdica: um estudo sobre educação e expressões culturais numa comunidade negra rural na Bahia

Abstract

This text is the result of a field research with ethnographic inspiration performed in black and traditional rural sites, called in some studies of quilombos communities, such as Tombador II and Bernardo de Lapa commmunities , located in the Valley Jiquiriçá in the city of Valença, 128 km from the capital Salvador. For ninety days living between the months of January to April 2015, totaling 453 hours of observation seeking to listen to the different forms of expression of the human body, notes were taken systematized into categories in the field diary, participation in conversation circles, 50 people were interviewed, 25 males and 25 females, of this total 19 formal interviews and 3 recorded in the audio file and 21 recorded in video format. The object of this study was based on the inter-relationship between corporeality and ludicity, especially with regard to diluted playful memory in the body of the subjects in this study, which are configured as a familiar storage fleeing the standards based on ties inbreeding and celebrate life mixing work and playfulness in a samba cord known as Grupo Cultural Arguidá, therefore we named them as Arguidá people. We discuss how these subjects build their bodily relations with the space, the playfulness, the party and work, supported the foundations of the post-colonial ethnography. The data collected were analyzed in a rhetorical debate between the theoretical basis of this research on the realities found in the field, so the method of analysis was structured upon a dialogue between the tradition of the researcher on historical dialectic materialism with the descriptive rhetoric while typical method of analysis of classic ethnographies. Our observations pointed to the understanding of an unusual way of exercising embodiment in pursuit of pleasure, incorporating a playfulness expression of the joy of living supported by the contact between the bodies, determining a cosmovision taught in manioc flour houses. We note that the playful memory of the Arguidá people, as an underground memory, which emerges in the interaction and the relationship between the bodies, especially on festive occasions and presentations of the Grupo Cultural Arguidá