Forma e conteúdo do bahsese Yepamahsâ (Tukano). Fragmentos do espaço Di'ta/Nhk (terra/Floresta)

Abstract

This dissertation aims to investigate the organization of the land-forest Di'ta/Nʉhkʉ space from the Bahsese on the upper Rio Negro in the Northwest Amazon. The dissertation is divided in an introduction, added by a historical and ethnographic context, and two central chapters. In the first, from the proposition of a conceptual triad (kihti ukuse, bahsese and bahsamori) which encompasses the domains of Yepamahsan knowledge, I situate the Di'ta/Nʉhkʉ space through mythical narratives. In the second, I make a descriptive effort on the form and content of the Di'ta/Nʉhkʉ espaço space through a classification of beings (human and nonhuman) extracted from the assemblages of the Kumuã specialists. In this context, I try to show how Bahsese practice classifies and orders, balances, and sustains beings and things in the earth / forest space. In general, I consider how the Tukano thought keeps the order and the well-being of the beings on the terrestrial platform and that this Knowledge is bearer of a particular reflection on Yepamahsã institutions and life forms, inseparable from the principle of the dignity of the tukano person.