Os conhecimentos tradicionais na/da Comunidade Jardim: reconhecer saberes para afirmar direitos

Abstract

The knowledge present in the social practices of the countryside are the legitimate knowledge of two peasants in the most diverse traditional communities, gained through profound observations and actions of two peasants in the natural world, transmitted and reworked from generation to generation. The objective of this dissertation is to identify and understand how current traditional knowledge is engaged in social practices carried out by residents of Comunidade Jardim, in the municipality of Rio Pardo de Minas, in the North region of Minas Gerais. This is a qualitative research that uses information from participant observation and interactions produced in focus groups with residents of the community. As an instrument for interpreting and analyzing the information obtained, two traditional (discursive) concepts were used: local, monistic, holistic, responsive relational, (un)known, valid, systematically empirical, temporality and spirituality. Our focus was to recognize the knowledge of the two inhabitants of the countryside, from their point of view turned to otherness, understanding how they engage in their social practices, reflecting their identities and their ways of life. This dissertation carries not only a research for the conclusion of a master's degree, it carries values of a people, stories that follow the lives of different generations, it carries the potential to make visible and value the traditional knowledge present in the local culture. social practices interconnected with customs, forms and modes of plantations, often appearing as resistance to colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy, that is, we recognize the community knowledge of the Horto community as epistemologies of the South. The construction of the Horta Community calendar is another way of confronting the logic of linear time, presenting other times, showing that life is not just a straight line, where failures are not a sign of incompetence or the non-use of equipment and strategies innovative is a sign of delay. We also understand that this research has the potential to contribute to the strengthening of local practices of Hortas Communities and, mainly, to the fight against the hegemonic power in favor of the rural way of life and traditional communities, which presupposes complementarity between knowledge systems and search build an ecology of knowledge.