Jogos interculturais indígenas como instrumento de valorização cultural-juventude da barreira da missão reafirmando identidades

Abstract

The purpose of this monograph was to analyze the Indigenous Intercultural Games as an element in the processes of identity affirmation and appreciation of indigenous culture from the experiences of young people from Barreira da Missão Tefé/AM. For this we used the qualitative method, literature review, document analysis and as a source oral interviews with young residents of Barreira. We used as main theorists Priscila Faulhaber, João Pacheco de Oliveira, Leila Mirtes Santos Magalhães Pinto, Stuart Hall, Kathryn Woodward, Michael Pollak, Karla Rossana Gomes Lôbo e Verônica Salgueiro do Nascimento. As a result, we found that the realization of the Indigenous Intercultural Games in the community, contributes to the youth to identify with the indigenous culture, that most young people recognize themselves as indigenous, although some do not know how to justify this statement, that the games were one of the ways found to insert young people into practice for the appreciation of indigenous culture and their identities, as well as to get them out of the vices that enter the community, encouraging a sustainable and healthy life, that the event is one of the ways to make them more aware politically and environmentally, generating awareness of their own humanity.