SENSE AND REALITY IN INDIGENOUS MYTHS: A SEMIOTIC EXAMINATION OF NARRATIVES ABOUT THE ACQUISITION OF FIRE

Authors

  • Clebson Luiz de Brito Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.38273

Keywords:

Indian myths, Acquisition of the fire, French semiotics, Reality.

Abstract

This article presents an analysis, under the light of French semiotics, of two myths of Brazilian Indian tribes that take care of the acquisition of the fire. The aim is to demonstrate that the texts examined are coherent as a whole and that certain elements, often taken as evidence of discursive chaos, such as the presence of animals with the semantic trace /human/, are also part of that. The analysis reveals that in both texts the conquest of the fire sets a figurativization of a process of normalization of the reality that explains the cultural elevation of the man/Indian in relation to beings confined to the sphere of the nature.

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Author Biography

Clebson Luiz de Brito, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Mestre em Linguística do Texto e do Discurso pela UFMG. Atualmente doutorando do Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos da UFMG. Bolsista Fapemig.

Published

2013-06-29

How to Cite

BRITO, Clebson Luiz de. SENSE AND REALITY IN INDIGENOUS MYTHS: A SEMIOTIC EXAMINATION OF NARRATIVES ABOUT THE ACQUISITION OF FIRE. Espaço Ameríndio, Porto Alegre, v. 7, n. 1, p. 196, 2013. DOI: 10.22456/1982-6524.38273. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/38273. Acesso em: 21 sep. 2026.

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