Historicity in the colonial reading of the Tupinambá heaven in the 17th century from the historiographic perspective of Ubiratan D’Ambrosio

Abstract

In this work, we argue that the historiographical proposal of Ubiratan D’Ambrosio (1932 - 2021), presented in his Ethnomathematics Program, is capable of supporting us in the processes of valuing Brazilian historicity and cultural diversity. Starting from theoretical research, with a qualitative and bibliographical approach, we used some aspects of D'Ambrosio's perspective to study a historical episode from the 17th century, based on the translation of a book published in 1614 by a French missionary, who participated in the project of colonization of Brazil in what became known as Equinoctial France. In this sense, at the end, I presented a discussion of three excerpts from this translation that demonstrate the astronomical knowledge of a Tupinambá group that lived in Maranhão at that time. With this, we seek to offer subsidies for Science and Physics teachers to implement proposals in Basic Education from the perspective of specialized Science Histories, seeking to avoid stereotypes and naive approaches, in order to meet, for example, Law 11.645/2008, the which requires the inclusion of studies on Afro-Brazilian and indigenous history and culture throughout Brazil's school curriculum.