Arqueologia em territórios quilombolas: “Literateca” como proposta metodológica interdisciplinar para a educação patrimonial

Abstract

This work presents a contribution of interdisciplinary approach called Literateca – which is the result of the articulation between Black Quilombola Literature, the “Poteca” and the Book of Life – as a methodological innovation for Heritage Education in Archaeology, which, by considering the orality and materialities present in the quilombola community, contributes to Archaeology favoring the realization of political actions that are articulated and ideologically implicated with them, and therefore more significant and constitutive of the subjects that live there. To this end, the ideas of theorists dealing with heritage education and public archaeology directed at quilombos were considered, as well as topics such as literacy theories, racism, quilombos in Brazil and Bahia, ceramics from the Recôncavo Baiano, and the importance of storytelling and orality for understanding the process of occupation of the communities. The main experiment was carried out in the community of Monte Recôncavo, located in São Francisco do Conde, Bahia, with a fifth-grade elementary school class, using the interdisciplinary project “Food from the Recôncavo of Bahia”. In this project, quilombola black literature is the main representation for the discussions on heritage and memory that take place during the Poteca sessions, and then the recording of the activities through the construction of texts and drawings inspired by the Book of Life, by Cèlestin Freinet. The result was theverification of the power of this methodology for working in quilombola communities and its contribution to heritage education and, consequently, to Archaeology.