ARTE VINDA DO BARRO: A CERÂMICA TERENA COMO AGENTE DE MUDANÇA

Abstract

This article will explain Terena ceramics (from clay) produced in our state, Mato Grosso do Sul, as an agent of cultural and environmental preservation. Through Terena ceramics we can see tradition, through its patterns of floral designs that reflect the local fauna and flora, the clay culture, and how manual production can contribute to the preservation of the environment through the use of natural materials. In this sense, culture is the relationship between the human species and the world in which it lives, it is related to learning the artistic, social, linguistic and behavioral manifestations of a people such as: music, theater, religious rituals, spoken and written language, myths, habits food, dance, architecture, inventions, thoughts, forms of social organization, ways of making sense of the world, etc. I make personal reports interspersed with informal interviews with the elders of the village where I live, I tried to use authors who speak of the Terena ethnic group such as Rohde (1990), Altenfelder (1949), Ladeira and Bittencourt (2000), among other authors who also contribute to the study of the Terena ethnic group. In the conclusions, I demonstrate my concern for the preservation of Terena ceramics, which are slowly disappearing in the region.