A school management shared between humans and enchanted at the State College Indigenous Tupinambá Serra do Baker (CEITSP)

Abstract

In this presentation, I intend to highlight the role of the enchanted ones – the main entities of Tupinambá cosmology – as “educational agents” in Tupinambá indigenous education in general, but also in indigenous school education, within the scope of the State College Indigenous Tupinambá Serra do Padeiro (CEITSP), located in the Serra do Padeiro village, in the Tupinambá de Olivença Indigenous Land. Thus, I will point to the fact that the transmission of knowledge in Serra do Padeiro, both informal and systematized in the context of indigenous school education, is inseparable from the actions of the enchanted. Taking into account the works developed both in the Brazilian Northeast and the literature related to the Amazon, I will show how CEITSP's school management is shared with the enchanted, since they "work" in various ways in/for the College and that In addition to this particularity, CEITSP also serves non-indigenous students. I will then draw attention to the interethnic relations between Tupinambá and non-indigenous people, as well as between humans and the enchanted in this context.