In Potiguara Land, Body and Indigenous Culture in the Catu Context

Abstract

The Catu Community has traditional cultural knowledge, experiences and practices that resist and are re-signified by the local people. The study aims to map corporal practices to perceive the knowledge that signifies them as the identity of the Catu Indigenous Community. It uses cultural studies as a reference and the ethnographic approach. It adopts the field diary and iconography that result in the practical-theoretical design of the organization of the Catu Community. It concludes there's the educational need to assume co-responsibility in the face of the challenge of creating new paths for the Potiguar Indigenous Education.