Sobre as casas tradicionais de pau-a-pique do grupo étnico Nyaneka-nkhumbi do Sudoeste de Angola

• Main Authors: Domingos Dias, Cecília Costa, Pedro Palhares
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Nariño 2015-01-01
• Series: Revista Latinoamericana de Etnomatemática
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=274038612002

T his paper aims to recover, develop, explore and expand the cultural practices of the ethnic group Nyaneka - nkhumbi from southwestern Angola from an ethnomathematical perspective evidenced in the construction of houses of c ob wall, keeping in mind the social multiculturalism of schools that exists, in part, almost everywhere, and in particular, in Portugal with a considerable and growing number of immigrants from Africa and other parts of the world. It becomes increasingly r elevant to preserve the cultural memory of these people. This paper presents an introduction to the ethnomathematics studies in Africa by various authors usnig a methodology based on informal conversation with group members, participant observation, and in terviews, supported by photographic records and written field notes. The results of the research developed in Huíla (Angola ) registered much important mathematical knowledge about building the traditional houses of the Nyaneka - nkhumbi that can be understoo d in the creation of tasks in a context of formation, a topic of interest in the first author‟s doctoral project.