“PUNGADA DE COREIRA”: PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND MEMORY OF THE CRIOULE DRUM MASTERS OF SÃO LUÍS DO MARANHÃO
Library and Information Science. Masters of the Tambor de Crioula/MA. Intangible Heritage. Memory - Black Women. Black protagonism.
The research that follows has as its backdrop the Tambor de Crioula de São Luís do Maranhão, a cultural manifestation of black resistance where women and men in a circle unfold a ritual, in which women dance and men play the drum under an ancestral magic that has become Intangible Heritage in 2007. The investigation aims to understand how the Masters of the Tambor de Crioula produce knowledge and perceive the dimensions of power, memory and intangible heritage, based on their places and political bodies. Specifically, we intend to identify the Tambor de Crioula masters as women who produce knowledge; to reflect on how the Masters of the Tambor de Crioula understand the dimensions of power, memory and intangible heritage so that at the end of the research, a photographic catalog is constructed, as a product, and that it promotes and makes visible the places of memory of the Masters of the Tambor de Crioula and its production of knowledge. The turning of the study skirts develops in a qualitative, descriptive and interpretative approach, as it works with meanings, values, memory and knowledge. The theoretical-methodological foundation is based on black feminism, its epistemologies and protagonisms, seeking with intersectionality, brought to the center of this research, as a methodology, to understand the intersections of the avenues of identity present in the proposed categories of analysis. This is a research that uses oral narratives that will allow us to enter the universe of the Masters' experiences and as a data collection instrument we opted for semi-structured interviews in order to provide the freedom and spontaneity necessary for the investigation. The partial considerations highlight the importance of the Masters of the Tambor de Crioula for the construction and belonging of a black identity in Maranhão. At the end, the schedule of activities for defending the dissertation, its perspectives and limitations, is presented.