Os índios nos livros didáticos de história do Brasil no ensino fundamental: uma leitura crítica e propositiva de abordagens interdisciplinares da antropologia com a história

Abstract

The goal of this research was to analyze the Indian in the History of Brazil text books in the fundamental series through an anthropological perspective. It is justified by the pertinence that the indigenous matter has in the history and in the Brazilian sociocultural constitution so much in the preterit as in the contemporaneousness. It had as hypothesis the possibility of the anthropology subsidize the History teaching of Brazil in related subjects to the Indian. Like theoretical support, they were used the categories Structure of the Conjuncture and Event in order to demonstrate the indigenous sociocultural dynamics in the contacts with the non-indigenous Brazilian society taking concepts as cultural assimilation and frictions inter-ethnical. The Cultural Relativism was used to demonstrate the indigenous sociocultural diversity in counterpoint to the present Social Evolutionism in the statements of the analyzed books. They were analyzed 15 titles published in the period of 1996-2007 available in a library of a public school, in one of a particular and in a public library attented by students of the fundamental and average teaching, all in Manaus Amazonas for being the city where I live. As a result, the analyses highlight that: the authors treat the Indian as passive subjects in Brazil's History, as diffuse entities in an anemic preterit, they do not argue the indigenous matter how it is practiced in the contemporaneity with cultural, social and political emphases in the Brazilian conjuncture, they introduce contents diverged of the introduced in academic researches revealing unsteadinesses among anthropological knowledges produced about the Indian and the absence of didactic transpositions of these knowledges for the school knowledge