Alteridade em A queda do céu e a tarefa de escutar as palavras de um xamã yanomami em desenhos de escrita
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5795509 |
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| Authors | Janaina Tatim (0000-0001-7782-9878, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | THESIS |
| Publisher | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (PUBLISHER • BR) |
| DOI | 10.47749/t/unicamp.2024.1408515 |
| OpenAlex | W4406023426 |
| Language | PT |
| References cited | 6 |
The colonization initiated by Europeans in the 16th century produced a paradigm of othering of the Americas' native peoples.This doctoral thesis is dedicated to a book that proposes another possible relationship between categories that respond to this historical process.The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman (2013Shaman ( [2010]]), by Davi Kopenawa, a shaman and a leader of the Yanomami indigenous people, and Bruce Albert, a French anthropologist, goes beyond ethnography to create, it is argued, a narrative that proposes the reader to engage with the consequences of the (re)cognition of another form of otherness relationship, which has Yanomami shamanism as its paradigm.To demonstrate this argument, it is presented the ethnic and historical, but also editorial, foundations of the identity categories behind the book's enunciative configuration and the turning it operates from the narrative point of view: of the indigenous narrator a priori situated as other in the literate field, and of the reader to whom he addresses himself as, in turn, his other, the white-napë.The argument focuses on frontal aspects of reading: the counter-ethnographic critique that Kopenawa makes of writing as part of his strategy of cosmopolitical struggle, the testimonial and mournful nature of the narrative that confronts the politics of recognition through difference, Kopenawa's vision of a humanity that is not only human but one of ecocentred condition, in tension with a vision of common humanity, underlying Terre Humaine Collection humanism and that of the Anthropocene human drama.As the study method delves into the paraphrasing of Davi Kopenawa's words, it goes deep into the matter of Yanomami shamanism as the means that allows knowing and transmitting a specific way of relating to the other.Shamanism promotes the access to knowing the xapiri spirits as the other, not only by their form as beings, but by the way they practice the relationship with the shamans as a relationship of otherness, taught by them through, it is stressed, the principles of foreignness and reciprocity.The becoming other presented in The Falling Sky provides an opportunity for a critique of the ethnogenocidal leaning in the treatment reserved for the difference of the Other by Western societies.Davi Kopenawa's elaboration of the ethics of the Yanomami cosmos is juxtaposed with a translational stance specific to Yanomami shamanic learning, mobilizing notions of environmentalism and an anti-capitalist position as controlled equivocation, decisive for understanding his thought.Thus, The Falling Sky engenders the common that does not subsume the uncommon, implying a form of transformation of the paradigm of alterity known and unknown to its readers as well as the opening to their own transformation into others.The argument is concluded by questioning the type of relationship that its readers are invited to enter into when Kopenawa gives his words, taking into account the book mediations, but especially considering those that subsist to them
Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Linguistics and Education Research · Urban and sociocultural dynamics
| Highly cited | No |
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