Terra de palavras: a construção narrativo-dialética do direito territorial Yanomami a partir do livro a Queda do céu de Davi Kopenawa

Abstract

This thesis aims to describe how Yanomami territoriality is presented in the book The Falling Sky, written by the shaman Davi Kopenawa and the French anthropologist Bruce Albert. Thus, it is a study in Agrarian Law, as it seeks to understand agrarianity and its subjects, particularly the Yanomami way of life and their relationship with the surrounding society more than thirty years after the demarcation of their territory, especially in light of the expansion of mining and the epidemics associated with it. The thesis adopts a dialectical methodological approach, as it analyzes a series of contradictory processes. Based on the definition of the problem and the object described above, we have organized our thesis into three chapters, following an individual dialectical methodology. Chapter 1 examines the indigenous subject (or the post-indigenous subject) in relation to and in rejection of the individualism of the surrounding society. In Chapter 2, we analyze the development of this indigenous subject within this territory. In Chapter 3, this subject-territory is analyzed through a narrative lens. Thus, we observe that the book critiques the political economy of the surrounding society (napë), a critique supported by an alternative cosmology. For this reason, it was necessary to reinterpret and transform the categories of commodity, labor, class struggle, ideology, and imperialism in order to perceive them from a Yanomami perspective. Furthermore, we grasp that Yanomami territory (urihi) does not share the Western perspectives that view nature as something external and separate from humans. Urihi is an intertwined territory of humans and non-humans; it is the space where life is produced and revealed through shamanism. In this way, Agrarian Law must unfold into a law that accommodates other cosmologies of the land, recognizing that territory is simultaneously life, world, and a space for cultural reproduction.