O que devemos aprender com a ciência do índio e o fortalecimento linguístico Kiriri: análise da articulação entre cosmopolítica, ritual, educação e epistemologia

Abstract

This work was carried out with the Kiriri people, an indigenous ethnic group located in the ethnological context of the Northeast that resides in the municipality of Banzaê-BA, in a demarcated territory of 12,320 hectares, with a population of approximately 4 thousand indigenous people. They went through an intense colonial process that had as one of their main consequences the fact that they no longer know how to speak the language of the ancients. Everything you know about her comes from the words that some of the elders know and what they learn from rituals with their ancestors. Their language is very important for their community in such a way that, through their language, they carry out healing processes, protect themselves from dangerous situations, communicate with beings that inhabit their territory like some plants, some animals and their ancestors. In addition, when performing their rituals in the language, they are strengthened by ensuring the presence and assistance of their entities in a more intense way. I wish to generate this phenomenon, they are currently looking for ways to speak their language everyday. We realize that this process is involved with a specific epistemology, education, ontology, mythology, ritual and cosmopolitics. We studied how the Kiriri, with their practices and knowledge, are trying to speak the language of the ancients, as well as, to appropriate the knowledge of linguistics. This involves two distinct epistemologies: the science of the Indian, as they call the knowledge derived from rituals and their ancestors, and academic science. As we went deeper into this issue, we noticed that indigenous knowledge has always been devalued due to the overvaluation of university knowledge. With this horizon in mind, we seek to demonstrate research on an indigenous methodology, describing its main aspects and showing how indigenous knowledge should not only be valued for the sake of respect, but also for the possibility of giving us scientific advances. Therefore, we seek to describe what the epistemology of Indian science consists of to demonstrate how, in linguistic and anthropological terms, it can help us to advance scientifically