A CARTOGRAPHY OF GOOD LIVING IN TOCANTINS: THINKING ABOUT WHAT DEVELOPMENT IS FROM INDIGENOUS COSMOVISIONS

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.317442425012

• Palavras-chave: Good Living; Serene Growth, Indigenous Worldviews, Development.

• Keywords: Good Living; Serene Growth, Indigenous Worldviews, Development.

• Abstract:

  With a thesis entitled "An ethnographic report on the mentalities of Good living in Ecuador and the Slow Movement in Italy: “Resistance Movements” and “Concrete Utopias” as alternatives to Development", we sought to understand, through the ethnographic method, between other questions, whether Sumak Kawsay (worldview of the Andean peoples) is configured as a "resistance movement" to the ideals of progress and development, or even an alternative for development, reconciling, in this case, the ideas of local and global development. It was assumed that the “conventional development” that has guided Western societies has been strongly marked by crises. Therefore, it was necessary to review, for example, the political organization of communities, as well as the levels of production and consumption. Now, however, what is proposed, even at the stage of bibliographical research, but in the future,  we will go into the field, and as a continuation of the studies initiated in the doctoral process, to understand whether there are elements in the indigenous communities of Tocantins cosmological movements that, when perceived and understood by anthropological study, could also be configured as “resistance movements” to “conventional” development models. It is in this sense, therefore, that we propose the construction of a cartography of good living, using the ethnographic method, to think about what development and public policies are for such communities.