KAIOWA MOMBE’UPY NHEMOHEMBYPY REHEGWA – REPORTS ON KAIOWÁ COSMOGONY: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE LANGUAGE AND THE PRODUCTION OF SOCIAL LIFE

This article seeks to demonstrate the relevance of the mythical tales and teachings applied by the Kaiowá in their models and practices of producion and reproduction of the social life in their communities. It also constitutes an effort to identify some elements related to their cosmogony. The ethno...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Chamorro, Graciela, Jorge, Misael Concianza, Pereira, Levi Marques
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Revista Espaço ameríndio
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/64991
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/64991
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Kaiowá
cosmologia kaiowá
mito
Panambizinho.
Mitologia Kaiowa
Kaiowá cosmology
myth
Descripción
Sumario:This article seeks to demonstrate the relevance of the mythical tales and teachings applied by the Kaiowá in their models and practices of producion and reproduction of the social life in their communities. It also constitutes an effort to identify some elements related to their cosmogony. The ethnographic data is from the research carried out by the Kaiowá teacher Misael Concianza Jorge in order to graduate from university. The material was later analyzed by others, along with its author, in order to present it in form of an article, adding bibliographic notes and additional ethnographic data collected by them. This article presents the myth as a special language that expresses, by means of ritual and poetic devices, various aspects of Kaiowá ethics and aesthetics. These tales provide codes for the modes of relationships among the Kaiowá and between them and their others. Among other implications, they explain the configuration of landscape elements. Furthermore, the myth is presented as a literary act, which allows the group to have ritualized tales, think about its origins, meanings and aims of the sociological and cosmological orders. Above all, it entertains the people with meaningful words and images.