O SONHO YANOMAMI CONTRA O FETICHE DA MERCADORIA

Abstract

Our article addresses aspects of the shamanic critique of the commodity form - as well as the social complex it engenders - based on Davi Kopenawa's cosmopolitical manifesto in The Fall of Heaven: Words of a Yanomami Shaman (2015). For Kopenawa, the “passion for merchandise” obscures thought, shrinks spirits and words, obstructs the ability to dream. The Yanomani dream, in turn, is a counterpoint to what the commodity establishes; where the commodity generates death and oblivion of the forest, the dream allows its defense and understanding. In order to broaden the scope of our reflections, we compare the cosmology of the commodity form developed by Davi Kopenawa with the theses of the German philosopher Karl Marx about the commodity form being the genesis of the capitalist mode of production and the fetishistic sociability that it necessarily institutes. . With regard to the centrality of dreams as a system of knowledge for Yanomami societies, we also refer to the research of Ana Limulja (2022), interculture from Kopenawa, for whom The Fall of the Sky could also be named as Yanomami Dream Book, given the organicity that the dream assumes in the group's daily life.