Thirteenth International Conference on The Image

Abstract

In this paper we present the project developed in the Scientific Initiation Program PIBIC/CNPq at the University of Brasília, Brazil. During the research, we sought to understand the vision of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon toward non-human beings and how the harmonious coexistence between them is built. The investigation emerged from the concept of syntropia, disseminated by the farmer and researcher Ernst Götsch, and from the definition of sympoiesis, defended by the ecofeminist Donna Haraway. Indigenous cosmological perspectives were analyzed from two ethnographic focuses: that of the Yanomami, who live in northwest Brazil, and the Munduruku community, in the Lower Tapajós River. The reflection made was based on the available literature that elucidated indigenous understandings about non-human beings, from rivers and forests to animals and shamanic deities.