Sintagmas cosmológicos e um perspectivismo ameríndio: sobrenatureza e conhecimento entre os tuxá da Bahia

Cosmological syntagms and an amerindian perspectivism: preternature and knowledge among the tuxá of Bahia

Authors

  • Leandro Durazzo Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

Abstract

Departing from Viveiros de Castro’s Amerindian perspectivism, with its initial emphasis on the pronominal aspect of cosmological relations, this text
highlights the syntagmatic dimension of Tuxá’s cosmological relations in the São Francisco riverbank. Tuxá’s syntagmatic perspective reveals how certain syntagms delimit socially formalizable, if not formulaic, ways of enunciating Indigenous discourses in relation to the supernatural. Considering enunciation as a powerful hermeneutic and social way of relating to reality, and also of creating it, such perspectivism helps us to understand relationships between ontological strata that, not being necessarily symmetrizable, show themselves in asymmetrical dynamics with which the tuxá speech is urged to deal, pragmatically and cosmopolitically, regarding their enchanted masters and more-than-human entities.


Keywords: Linguistic Anthropology; Indigenous Northeast; Theory of Knowledge

Author Biography

Leandro Durazzo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

Doutor em Antropologia Social (UFRN).

Published

2022-02-27

How to Cite

Durazzo, L. (2022). Sintagmas cosmológicos e um perspectivismo ameríndio: sobrenatureza e conhecimento entre os tuxá da Bahia: Cosmological syntagms and an amerindian perspectivism: preternature and knowledge among the tuxá of Bahia. Modernos & Contemporâneos - International Journal of Philosophy [issn 2595-1211], 5(13). Retrieved from https://ojs.ifch.unicamp.br/index.php/modernoscontemporaneos/article/view/4646