“Aprender com”: ecologia dos saberes e a obra de Davi Kopenawa

Abstract

This article seeks to promote a dialog between the theoretical and analytical approach of some of the post-colonial theories, and the political, philosophical and critical work on Brazil that the Yanomami shaman and indigenous activist Davi Kopenawa, representative of the Yanomami people, offers to the “Whites”. This work is part of the research program outlined by Santos and Menezes (2010) with the aim of promoting the epistemological construction of an ecology of knowledge. To this end, we will analyze the book “The Fall of Heaven – Words of a Yanomami Shaman”, produced and written jointly by Davi Kopenawa and anthropologist Bruce Albert. We will use a qualitative, descriptive methodology, using bibliographical and documentary research as data sources.