Neká Mahsá (gente-estrela): Um Estudo de Vivências do Calendário Desâna no Tupé

Abstract

This paper focuses on the discussion of the Astronomical Calendar Desana and its (re ) signification in the context of tourism and etnoconservação in Desana Tupé , locus of the research community . The initial objective of the research was to analyze those aspects of mythology contained in the experiences Desana in Tupe . We leave the narrative of the book , published by ISA , Bueri Kadiri Marirye " The lessons you never forget " ( DIAKURU & KÍSIBI , 2006) for the analysis of elements present in the cosmogonic statement schedule Desana Tupé . Empirical plurality theme made we push the analysis to identify not only the elements of the mythical calendar, contained in the tour package offered to the public in the RDS Tupe , but the social function of shamanism Desana , where he survives the modes of globalized tourism . Observance of environmental dynamics altered by changing factor , both caused by territorial mobility from high to low river Negro , as caused by climate change, which are observed in the region , was something that , transversely , we are dedicated in understanding the meanings of the use of this calendar among this group . From the point of view of the process of expropriation and breach of their culture , in dealing with exogenous to its tradition activities, analyzing the return to en- reza - focused on aspects of traditional shamanic experiences - resulting in our hypothesis , the assertion a field reterritorialidade recognized by Desana . The approach with the elements that keep the memory of tradition - myths and hierophanies gifts modes - of - doing transiting the prior knowledge to generations, to modern - contemporary modes of know-how Desana in Tupe - led us to the structures that are the path to the understanding of memory as a system of adaptation to the group. Systems from which appropriate the tradition in a different way , to your local development and establishment as culturally distinct ethnic group the Black River in semi-urban context, around the city of Manaus . In this way , memory , find the schedule , the " edge " [ 1 ] of culture itself . Jerusa Pires Ferreira (2010) defines the term as " contour drawing " where , in my view , the Desana at Tupe , pass and permeate , " a flowing in and out of the culture." This interlacing of contours and knowledge was the object of our analysis. The group , led by Kísibi - Kʉmʉ Desana , Raimundo Sources Vaz , is a descendant of the group of grandmothers cited by Diakuru & Kísibi (2006 ) , the sib Wahari Dihputiro Pora [ 2 ] , urucú the creek , a tributary of river Tiquié . Our approach was qualitative and resorted to structured and semistructured interviews , in order to know the different aspects of culture Desana transiting in their current survival pathways . Our hypothesis is that Desana at Tupe, maintains a relationship with the sacredness of mythical - ritual memory of their traditional astronomical calendar and are able to describe the symbolic and cosmological relationships associated with it, allowing us to analyze the modern polarity - traditional, in this experience .