O Lugar dos Sonhos no Xamanismo Yanomami: Uma Interpretação de A Queda do Céu
O Lugar dos Sonhos no Xamanismo Yanomami: Uma Interpretação de A Queda do Céu
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DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.8732310106
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Palavras-chave: Xamanismo; Sonhos; Yanomami; Povos Indígenas; A Queda do Céu.
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Keywords: Shamanism; Dreams; Yanomami; Indigenous People; The Falling Sky
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Abstract: This present article is the result of a year-long scientific research project (2021-2022), in which various issues related to the theme of dreams and shamanism were analyzed, such as the importance of dreams within the shamanic context, the yanomami shamans and the relevance of dreams to the yanomami sociocultural aspect. For this purpose, the book originally published in 2010, “The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman”, was used as a significant theoretical reference. As stated by the Brazilian anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, the author of the book’s prologue, the work is “an ethnographic narrative that is simultaneously poetic and philosophical, critical and reflective. This is a book about Brazil.” (DE CASTRO,2015,p.12). It embarks on the long journey of the activist and yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa, who, when recounting his life to the anthropologist Bruce Albert, discusses his yanomami people, their ancestral culture, everyday customs and the issues they face as a minority group. One of the main markers of yanomami culture, besides being an active symbol of resistance to the “blender of modernity from the West” - a phrase used by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro - is the meticulous connection they establish with nature and the metaphysical world, expressed through shamanism. Therefore, the main objective of this article is to delve into the mysterious world of dreams and reveal the importance of dream activity for the yanomami people. These people, with their collectivist worldview of integration, have been fighting against various forms of violence since their first contact with Western society. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the yanomami worldview and their metaphysical conceptions of the forest and the land, which, according to shaman Davi Kopenawa, can only die and disappear if destroyed by “napë” (the Yanomami term for foreigners, white people).
- Carolina de Alencar Monteiro Hipolito