Bahsamori: o tempo, as estações e as etiquetas sociais dos Yepamahsã (Tukano)

Abstract

This dissertation is about the Bahsamori, which is part of the knowledge tripod of the Yepamahsã, Ukũse kihti, Bahsese and Bahsamori. Each of them has a vast literature, and to be one of the connoisseurs of the Tukamo ukũse tripod, the Yepamahsã have been following from the conception and guiding their children so that they are experts in each one of them. That's why in a community the old connoisseurs are Kumu, Yai and Baya. The trio is considered the foundation of a community. The trio of specialists are knowledgeable and use the bahsese and works daily for the welfare of the community, one of them is to visit the families, if they find someone who is sick, the expert uses bahsese. The scope of the Bahsamori is to show what relevance the old knower, the Baya, has to lead a community. This in turn has been ruled from his childhood and in the youth trained to know the tukana astronomy. Therefore, to know astronomy is part of the Baya guide all the chores of the daily Yepamahsã. Each station is always known by means of bioindicators, and Baya, in turn, from these bioindicators guides its community members to work on the development of fishing traps and hunting traps, as well as fishing for piracema and, finally, Celebrating every event promotes the dust, that is, the dabucuri, with his close relatives and neighbors, who are his brother-in-law and father-in-law. To assimilate this dissertation is divided in Introduction two chapters and final consideration. What most contributed to the construction of this dissertation were the myths, because when it comes to the knowledge of the Yepamahsã, the myths are of paramount importance and the bahsamori is inserted in the myths. However the research on the Bahsamori made it possible for the knowledge of the Yepamahsã to continue to prevail. Many believed that with the arrival of the Christian calendar through the early missionaries, the peaceful life of the Yepamahsã had been a wake of forgetting Bahsamori. However it lies on the responsibility of some old connoisseurs, who in turn to maintain the knowledge use the writing spontaneously.