Memórias ancestrais, traços contemporâneos e aspectos comunais na arte cerâmica Mbyá-Guarani

Abstract

The academic analysis presented here reflects the experiential research that, as investigator of the Graduate Program in Arts of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (in the line of studies in Art, Culture and Cognition), was surveyed in Mbyá-Guarani villages in cities of Niterói and Maricá since the year of 2012 about its art in clay. Considering contributions from their ethnohistorical ancestral ceramic, this action has been performed by collecting data both pre-history and historical periods focused on themselves. However, recognizing the scarcity of their manufactured among those Mbyá and, paradoxically, the fact that there still has been craft samples in their society that remain being important to these people, such an examination was not restricted only to knowing the morphology of these objects, but sought to discern somewhat of its symbolism and retrieve this practical occurrence through artistic and educational activities together with the children there. Therefore, through action research and educational method of Célestin Freinet it was sought to achieve revitalization opportunities of this exercise memory of potter's construction and recognize children s importance within Mbyá society