VITAL ENERGY AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT: INTERFACES BETWEEN WESTERN THOUGHT AND INDIGENOUS COSMOLOGY – THE JAVAÉ CASE

Unlike what happens in Western capitalist societies, who think the world so disruptive, creating dichotomies as culture / nature and society / environment, indigenous thought in such oppositions are not common. Thus, indigenous peoples do not live a crisis mentality on the environment. The Javaé pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Panosso, Carlos Eduardo
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2011
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repository:Revista Espaço ameríndio
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/23078
Online Access:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/23078
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:socioambiente
energia vital
sociedade e natureza
Javaé.
Meio Ambiente
socio-environmental
vital energy
society and nature
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Summary:Unlike what happens in Western capitalist societies, who think the world so disruptive, creating dichotomies as culture / nature and society / environment, indigenous thought in such oppositions are not common. Thus, indigenous peoples do not live a crisis mentality on the environment. The Javaé provides elements with which it becomes possible to think about their "ideas" of body and vital energy and how these inform their practices and their relationship with social and environmental. Understanding this concept as something that includes a social totality that includes humans and nonhumans, and thus, maintaining a social and ecological balance.