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Maragogipinho - the voices of clay: educational praxis in popular cultures

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Author(s):
Sonia Carbonell Alvares
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Educação (FE/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Marcos Ferreira dos Santos; Rogério de Almeida; Geralda Mendes Ferreira Silva Dalglish; Ricardo Gomes Lima; João de Jesus Paes Loureiro
Advisor: Marcos Ferreira dos Santos
Abstract

This work presents an accurate observation of the pottery universe in the village of Maragogipinho, Bahia. The research reveals who are the masters of clay, makes known their creative and educational process. These men and women are protagonists of the brazilian intangible cultural heritage, they preserve and socialize knowledge across generations, originated in unsystematic practices, not legitimized by the hegemonic cultures. Craft Education is established on ancestry, on repetition and invention, in constant dialogue between tradition and the emergence of the modernity: new ways of creating and old trade secrets are mixed on a permanent tension between transformation and conservation. The craftsman lives his cultural legacy and keeps it alive reinventing and updating it forever. This heritage preserves the connection with the past, but acquires new symbols and meanings to strengthen the identity of the authors and their communities, and to make sense of the future. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 12/16169-1 - Educacional Praxis in Folk Art: between anonymity and identity
Grantee:Sonia Carbonell Alvares
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate