Narrativas quase esquecidas: leitura dos mitos Baniwa

Abstract

The research presented here makes a literary reading of the myths Baniwa,Arawak - speaking people from the upper Rio Negro in Amazonas State, collected by a group of researchers in the period 2004 to 2005. The reading in order to know the thoughts and feelings that people is maked in theoretical literature focused on the oral narratives and popular discussion, from theorists of anthropology, history and Greek mythology, the concepts of myth and his relationship with the narrative of indigenous oral tradition, specifically the Baniwa. The content of mythical narratives in question is facing the fishery and refers to the relationship between cosmology, humans and protohumans essential for the socio-cultural life Baniwa