Relações entre infância, escola e religião : etnografia dos Baniwa do médio Içana

Abstract

This dissertation is about the relations of childhood, school and evangelical religion of the Baniwa people, who live in the Upper Rio Negro, northwest Amazon. From ethnographic experience in communities of the Middle Rio Içana aspects of Baniwa sociality in the formation of their children are addressed in this dissertation, considering the school and the evangelical religion contexts. The school context is one of the common threads of the ethnographic narrative since the entry into the field happened after an invitation received from the Moliweni school in Vista Alegre community located in the Cuiari River within the scope of the UFSCar Observatory of Indigenous School Education. The religious and school events in Baniwa communities of the Middle Içana demonstrate the importance of religion in its social organization as well as its influence in the debates regarding differentiated Baniwa school education. Thus, this ethnography describes the formativa process of children anf young in their communities in school and religious spaces to understand the meaning of good living in the Baniwa communites of the Middle Içana