Reflections on the research-creation-teaching process materialized through the authorial writing of the book “Exu, orientation paths: Knowledge of the Ijexá tradition, afro-geographies of an ogan”

Abstract

This Memorial accompanies the final product “Exu, paths of orientation: Knowledge of the Ijexá Tradition and Afro-geographies of an Ogan” (a puppet of a paradidactic book), elaborated during the Professional Master Course in Teaching and Ethnic-Racial Relations, from Federal University of Southern Bahia. The following are covered in this Memorial: a) the theoretical-methodological bases and the research-creation process that allowed the proposal for authorial writing of the referred book; b) autobiographical narrative of formation and teaching trajectory; c) critical essay “Living between two worlds, the adjá and the pen: Ajalá Deré's life story, Ruy do Carmo Póvoas”, unpublished; d) scientific article published in the context of the formation of the Master's Course, entitled “Alá Funfun: experiences, knowledge and colors at Ilê Ijexá, in Itabuna / BA”. The texts that make up this Memorial have the function of explaining the training processes experienced in the Course and the results achieved, in the form of products made, from September 2017 to December 2020.

Palavras-chave: Ijexá Traditional Knowledge; Candomblé; Orality; Anti-racist education.