Ponto Cantado de Umbanda como fonte para o Ensino de História

Abstract

The purpose of this text is to present and discuss the possibility of using Sung Points as a source for the Teaching of History in formal Education with regard to the debate proposal from the promulgation of Federal Law 10.639 / 03 that establishes the mandatory teaching of African and Afro-Brazilian History and Culture in school curricula. Therefore, in the first moment we discussed the Law as a result of a long process of struggle in the search for African and Afro-Brazilian recognition in the formation of Brazil, in the second we presented Umbanda as a Brazilian religious phenomenon, and lastly we presented the Ponto sung as a possibility of a historical source for the Teaching of History, questioning its use as a document for observation, questioning and analysis in the construction of historical knowledge in formal education.