XIV March of the Tremembé people: Ritual of affirmation and cultural vindication

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira , Franderlan Campos
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Figueiredo, João Batista de Albuquerque
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Práticas Educativas, Memórias e Oralidades
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/revpemo/article/view/11654
• topic: Tremembé; Ancestralidade; Ritual; Direitos Sociais; Tremembé; Ancestry; Ritual; Social rights

We present an ethnographic interpretation, a decolonial perspective, of the XIV March of the Tremembé people. Cultural affirmation and claim ritual held on September 7, 2017 in Almofala (Itarema-Ceará). We describe the symbolic elements identified by us during the Marcha Tremembé. We intend to demonstrate that the March does not correspond only to a ritual, but to a set of them, all involved in a political, social and psychological dimension, which brings to the fore the claim of the ancestral rights of the Tremembé people. The Tremembé March, in addition to being a “political ritual”, must also be understood as a “sacred ritual”, involving spirituality and beliefs in the Tremembé myths. A Torém was celebrated at the place, pulled by the Pajé's maraca, as well as many speeches claiming their rights and exhibition of banners and posters. The Torém is known as a game played by the old Tremembé, it represents the cultural symbol of identity and struggle of the local people.