Igara, Uka, Makira Irúmu (a canoa, a casa e a rede): epistemologia e barbárie na Amazônia em sete ensaios irredentos

Abstract

This thesis, Igara, uka, makira irúmo, addresses the Amazon Region as an epistemological, ontological and dialectical reality, facing the instrumental paradigm of scientific rationality and simultaneously the mythical and perceptive structure of traditional knowledge of the social being of the Hiléia. More than empirical singularities, the canoe, the house and the hammock denote, in these seven essays, the epistemic resistance to the cruelty of occidental thought (identified by the Procrustean bed), to which nature and culture are subjected in the Amazon. Given knowledge based on the subject-object dichotomy, that contributes to the functional nature of capital and forgetting the uni-duality of the human being, these narratives contribute to a renewal of the foundation of the cognitive and ontological structure of the natural and social being of Amazonia.