A queda do céu e o pluriverso yanomami: ancestralidade, território e educação

Abstract

From Arturo Escobar’s studies of relational ontology (2015), we develop in this paper a reading of Davi Kopenawa’s The falling sky: words of a yanomami shaman (2015). Our central argument consists in defending the following points: first, which is directly related to Escobar’s theory, the yanomami cosmology is other world capable of giving sense to individual and social life in a way that is differentiated regarding to Western culture and totally able to furnish all material and symbolic needs required; and, second, cosmology and politics affirmed in the work do not eliminate the aesthetical character of the language presented for the shaman to non-indian societies. Therefore, the pluriverse, here, refers itself at the same time to the Escobar’s concept of pluriverse, in order to defend the existence of other worlds to the eyes of the West, mas also the lyrical condition that the world enables in terms of language, metaphors of the yanomami world translated to the Portuguese language, the graphics used in the work, even in the narrative, very proper and singular to the context of the shaman Kopenawa.