Cultura viva: modos de descolonizar a caatinga a partir da relação entre flores e pássaros

Abstract

This paper seeks to problemattize the crisis situation in the Alagoan caatinga through the comparison between non indians world and territory conceptions and Kalankó conceptions. Kalankó are indians who live in the high hinterland of Alagoas, a brasilian state. This means they live in caatinga, one of brazilian biomas. Therefore, they must to face several diffi culties over there, in order to guarantee dignity to their lifes. One of them is the caatinga desertification and degradation. It aims also to explore the mitocosmological content present in Kalankó toré lyrics. Toré is a musical ritual which is often en analysed by anthropology as a cultural performance, which diacritically marks the indigenous identity, reducing the potential of the rite. In this paper, we try to regard it as a polysemic ritual, as in other opportunities it is perceived. It seeks, therefore, to take the Kalankó knowledge with political and epistemic value similar to a Eurocentric epistemology, decolonizing the caatinga.