A história da mãe órfã de filha viva: o jeito quilombola de cuidar da cabeça desORÍentada

Abstract

Maintaining the traditional customs of her people, and the researcher being a Griote Quilombola, this research aims to tell the story of the mother orphaned with a living daughter and the quilombola way of taking care of ORÌentada's head. Oral tradition based on stories told by word masters is a way of transmitting knowledge between generations, preserving the memory, culture, knowledge and practices of the quilombo. To tell this story without losing orality in writing, the concept of writing by Conceição Evaristo, oralitura proposed by Leda Maria Martins and narrative writing as an authorial resource, taught by Ester Mambrini will be used as a writing method. In the Theoretical Pilão, I include the ancestral knowledge of the elderly, grandmothers, faith healers, aunts and uncles and productions of quilombola intellectuals, such as Beatriz Nascimento and Nêgo Bispo, and psychological theories about mental health. To analyze this story, I use the Sankofa movement, going back to the past to understand the present and give new meaning to the future, as the cure for the head of Orientada is done by returning to the motherland, the Mandingo proverb teaches us “Before knowing where you are going, You need to know who you are.”