Rituals of Resistance

In the differentiated schools of the Tapeba Indians (CE) some pedagogical practices function as rituals of ethnic-cultural resistance to re-semanticize the stigmas and prejudices associated with them. Based on a critical approach to school which conceives it as a privileged time-space for socio-political change associated with the perspective of social dramaturgy and the anthropology of performance and experience we present the times and spaces in which the Tapeba construct and express through their educational actions the group's experiences of ethnicity. Thus the Cultural Fair the Tapeba Indigenous Games the Tapeba Indian Day Walk and the Carnaúba Festival on the one hand and the Cultural Classes on the other highlight processes of identity affirmation that starting from education extend to other aspects of their community experiences.