Between Ethnicity and Ludicity: Indigenous Children's Joke Tremembe de Itarema, Ceará, Brazil

Abstract

The Tremembe are an Amerindian group from Brazil, resident in Brazil, in the state of Ceará, known above all for Torem, their ancestral ritual. Among children of this ethnicity, attention is drawn to the games and the approach to the cultural environment that integrate specifications about nature, rituals, body adornment, sports influence and historicity. We then direct this work on the following questions: “What are these children's games? What (inter) cultural relations can we make from the observation of these games? ”The aim of this study is to describe, consider and reflect on the ways of play of these children and their approach to the cultural environment stimulated by the specifications that integrate nature, the seasonality, the rituals, the body designs, the modern sporting influence, their parliaments and stories. For this purpose, ethnography was used as a methodological process, and on-site visits were carried out between 2009 and 2019. As findings of this research, it is found that the appropriation in the constructions of the children's playful practices Tremembe have involvement with their socio-cultural environment and in which Children are protagonists of these, their learning and their discoveries. Concluding that the playfulness of these children intertwines with their own cosmological dimensions and changes through distinct ethnic contacts.