Cosmovision and challenges of the human condition of the Guarany Mbya people in Brazil
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.126423Abstract
The Guarani Mbya's ethno-identity is assessed as an epiphenomenon of the history of violent deculturation to which they were subjected and their struggle for rights, as one of the broader themes of the debate on cultural diversity in a country of ethnic plurality such as Brazil, figuring as a counterpoint of globalizing national policies that oppose the survival of alternative cultures. Shamanism, one of the most striking elements of Guarani Mbya ethno-identity, is inserted in this approach as a structuring element of life in indigenous communities, through which we have access to a language that informs about the use of signs, as portions of a meta-system, whose logic organizes and gives new meanings to traditional Mbya elements.
