Vegetable itineraries, or the inconstancy of the Banawá village
The transformations experienced by the Banawá (Arawá, Purus) in the last decades refer to a movement in which the figures of otherness, whether vegetable or human, produce a constant oscillation between itinerancy and stability. Unable to reduce themselves to the condition of “nomad” or “sedentary”,...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2020
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/maloca/article/view/13482 |
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| Summary: | The transformations experienced by the Banawá (Arawá, Purus) in the last decades refer to a movement in which the figures of otherness, whether vegetable or human, produce a constant oscillation between itinerancy and stability. Unable to reduce themselves to the condition of “nomad” or “sedentary”, the Banawá develop practices that are also not limited to what is conventionally known as “hunting and gathering”, on the one hand, or “agriculture”, on the other. A close look at mythology and relations with the forest reveals that the processes of “loss of agriculture”, or of resumption, alternation or incorporation, constitute political choices. In this sense, village, gardens and forest do not express so much a geography of permanence or change, but topologies inspired by the inconstancy of collective life. |
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| ISSN: | 2675-3111 |
