Temējakrekatê: gnosecídio, resistência e transcolonialidade dos Saberes Tradicionais no Vale do Tocantins-Araguaia

Abstract

The text and its writing, interpelled by the cosmo-ontognosiological otherness in the Tocantins-Araguaia Valley, enunciates multiple agencies and transcolonialities. Gnosecide is an operationality of coloniality, the resistance of traditional knowledge its countermovement. Faced with the hegemony of the white heritage – the logocentrism, its metaphysics, its paideia, its strength, its curricula – and its coloniality, other heritages – indigenous, quilombolas, riverine, peasants – resist and are dynamized by collective and cosmic agencies that, repeatedly, escape attempts to control the happening of the difference. Faced with multiple framings, among them necropolitical and gnosecide, traditional peoples in the Tocantins-Araguaia Valley – peasants, riverines, quilombolas, agro-extractivists and indigenous peoples –, such as the Akrãtikatêjê, claim multiple agencies. The Akrãtikatêjê, people of timbira-gavião performativity, in seeking/negotiating self-determination (ethno-determination) in the dynamics of their memories, trans-invent/transcolonize white institutions, devices and names, such as the school and the curriculum. The Akrãtikatêjê school and curriculum are agencied in Temējakrekatê in order to practice the culture, as the cacica of the Akrãtikatêjê People, Tônkyré, told me: “A college here is our teaching center, I say: when my father had this brilliant idea of putting Temējakrekatê, the core of wisdom... Because we know what we want”. The to practice the culture and its transinventions performatize the ancestral devir claimed by traditional peoples. The yes to the performativity of traditional knowledge by a traditional collective is an act of resistance. This thesis moves in these agencies, in these transcolonialities and in a certain ethnoengament in the Tocantins-Araguaia Valley.