Banca de DEFESA: Luzia Thereza Oliveira Lima

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STUDENT : Luzia Thereza Oliveira Lima
DATE: 14/04/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: REMOTO
TITLE:

The encounter with another worldview in The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman

KEY WORDS:

tension; Literature; policy; cosmopolitics; cosmology.

PAGES: 111
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

This work aims to discuss the tension between the wisdom maintained by memory and the writing of The falling sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert, and to understand the process that resulted in the realization of the text. In the first part of this study, based on the analysis of the first lines of the text, we highlight Kopenawa's political effort inherent in the preparation of the book and some translation difficulties between different worldviews, but we also locate the possibilities that arise in the literary field and confront the idea of national hegemony that has already been disseminated by Literature. In the second part of this work, we analyze the pages that make up the book to hear what Kopenawa wants to explain, so we delve into the meanings that guide he shaman's political discourse and discover that the words we find from this reading can only be heard with the intermediary of Kopenawa, because they are shamanic words (Viveiros de Castro). It is in this way that we realize that the writing of The falling sky is the result of a political and cosmopolitical combination of the interethnic leader and Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa. Furthermore, when we are faced with another way of seeing and inhabiting the world, we, readers guided by Western logic, are led to rethink our own cosmology, as we find ourselves with the limitations of our own thinking linked to goods and smoky by the obstinacy to accumulation and unbridled production. Thus, we have the chance to reorganize ourselves and build, with the knowledge of shamanic words, a dialogical frontier and become others in relation to maintaining the forces that hold the sky.

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