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| Author(s): |
Daniel Calazans Pierri
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2013-09-27 |
| Examining board members: |
Dominique Tilkin Gallois;
Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro;
Beatriz Perrone Moises
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| Advisor: | Dominique Tilkin Gallois |
| Abstract | |
This work presents an analysis of aspects of Guarani-mbya cosmology focused on alterity relations among the Guarani, the deities and spirits, animals and white people. A fundamental issue that follows throughout this work is: the link between the theme of the loss of immortality and that of the different choices made in the first land, by Guarani people and white people, which refers to the uses of technology and the relationship with the demiurges. The classic theme of prophetism, or the pursuit of the land without evil, is revisited from a new perspective focused on conceptions of the body and its possibilities of transformation. This also includes the role that the sensible opposition between the perishable and imperishable acquires in reflections concerning the relation between the terrestrial worlds and celestial worlds. The argument converges to demonstrate how the reflections of the Guarani-Mbya presented here constitute a shamanic review on the fetishism of commodities and christianity. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/02777-7 - Eating like gods: production of the body among Guarani |
| Grantee: | Daniel Calazans Pierri |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |