A história do Makunaima e a história do Timbó: um estudo das relações entre humanos e outros-que-humanos

Abstract

It is impossible to deny that Western, Eurocentric, so-called civilized thinking almost always predominated as the correct, acceptable one, most of the time without opening up possibilities so that other knowledge, such as that of indigenous people, for example, could also be taken into consideration, especially when it comes to the relationship they maintain with natural beings in general. In view of this, this doctoral research is developed based on the hypothesis that the narratives Panton Pia' the History of Timbó and Panton Pia' the History of Makunaima illustrate well the way in which indigenous peoples relate to others-than-humans, such as animals and plants, as well as nature in general, demonstrating that all beings that inhabit the universe are interconnected to a single being, Mother Earth. In this sense, we will propose a discussion about indigenous epistemologies to understand how the relationships between humans and others-than-humans occur in the narratives Panton Pia’ the History of Timbó and Panton Pia’ the History of Makunaima. The two narratives that will serve as corpus for this research were collected by the project “Panton Pia': Indigenous oral narrative, registration and analysis” in circum-Roraima, a transnational territory around Mount Roraima, where the Macuxi, Wapichana, Taurepang, Ye'kuana, Wai-wai, Ingarikó, among others. To this end, we have specific objectives to talk about indigenous narratives; discuss the metamorphic transformations that occurred in the narratives Panton Pia’ the story of Timbó and Panton Pia’ the story of Makunaima that show the relationships between humans and other-than-humans; show the importance of the metamorphoses present in the narrative The story of Makunaima for the construction of the landscapes that make up the circum-Roraima; as well as highlighting the importance of the elements that make up the circum-Roriama landscape as triggers of the memory of the indigenous narrator Clemente Flores. The research will be of a bibliographic and interpretative investigative nature within an interdisciplinary scope, involving studies of literature in general and indigenous literature, philosophy, anthropology, biology, among others, and will be based on the studies of Viveiros de Castro (1996-2008-2011) , Paul Zumthor (1993-1997), Maria Inês de Almeida and Sônia Queiroz (2004), Michel Collot (2012), Lúcia Sá (2012 2017), Graça Graúna (2013), Fábio Carvalho (2017), Devair Fiorotti and Clemente Flores (2019), Emanuele Coccia (2020), among others.