Brinquedo de miriti: tradição, gênero e currículo multicultural

Abstract

This article is based on research carried out in a miriti toy production studio and was developed for 10 months, which constituted the graduation work. The research objective was to observe how the gender relations were materialized at the production and in the miriti toy itself and what cultural knowledge was transmitted at the process of making toys. I quote Williams (1992), Hobsbawm (1984), Clifford (2008), Scott (1995), Louro (1997, 2000), Silva (2000, 2004), Connell (1995), Moreira (2002), Candau (2003), Ribeiro (2010) e Gomes (2013). And as result, I inform that the miriti toy tradition is bicentennial, anchored in the belief of rough work and light work, on which it is sorted by gender the toy production. This gender culture is governed by normativity and by the spatialization that determine the proper places that the masculine and feminine bodies must occupy; in view of the hierarchy and inequality existing in the studio, there is a need to deconstruct this norm through the multicultural curriculum.