41ABSTRACTIn presenting this text, we assume the commitment and the sense, both
political and academic, of sharing processes to decolonize stories and
knowledge. We also seek to decolonize our looks and perceptions, opening
ourselves to other possible ways / worlds of being and living. We move
in dialogue with other people, contexts and social groups, even though
constituted in a modern-western mentality, challenging us to learn from
the Akwẽ-Xerente people’s ways of life. We inquire about their ways of
inhabiting the world, their relations with the mystic, with nature, with the
family and the community; understanding the “good life” that emerges
from their practices, and that reveals itself as a game, as playing. In
hunting for tanajuras, bathing in the river, on the wheels of handicrafts,
in the log race, in the bow and arrow, in resistance races, in the power
line and in football, they move between freedom and obligation, share
knowledge that sustains their resistance and daily struggles. Thus, we
hope, in the centrality of the cultural practices of the Akwẽ-Xerente
people, to learn from their processes of organization and perception
of the social and, with this, to question other possibilities and possible
meanings for what we name and experienc as Leisure.
Key words: Akwẽ-Xerente People, Decolonization, Education, Leisure.