Perspectivism in “before the world didn't exist”

Authors

  • Jéssika Vasconcelos Moraes Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
  • Marinete Luzia Francisca de Souza Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-9694
  • Bruna Silveira Roncato

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48075/ri.v24i2.29101

Keywords:

Perspectivism, Transition, Shamanism

Abstract

Our purpose in this paper is discush, based on the literature masterpiece Before the World
didn't exist (2019) and the Theory of Perspectivism of Viveiros de Castro. The storytelling shows the
Desana mythology, since the beginning of Universe, pointing up importants aspects to the culture. We
search to comprehend the relation between the transmutations suffered by the characters, under the
point of view of Perspectivism as a phenomenon that defends that the body as involucre, possible of
modification. For that, this search approaches structurals and thematic aspects of the masterpiece.
We selected for tales to analyse: “The history of Gãipayã and the origin of the pupunha”, “Manioc
origins history”, “Three stories of Buhtari Gõãmũ, the lazy spirit” and “The walkings by the world of
Umukomahsü Boreka”. We noted that the changes suffered by characters in the tales happened by
diferents reasons. By the way, we related the analyzed facts with the perspectivism light because,
although the change occurs in differents way, this theory comprehend the transition between species,
the characters intrinsec shamanism and the knowledge that they use to modify your exterior form, in
occupation of a animal body.

Author Biographies

Jéssika Vasconcelos Moraes, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

Graduada em Letras pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Campus Universitário do Araguaia. Foi estagiária na Biblioteca Maria Celeste Saad Guirra, do Campus Universitário do Araguaia. Vencedora do Prêmio de Iniciação Científica Severino Meirelles da UFMT 2021.

Marinete Luzia Francisca de Souza, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

Professora Adjunta II na Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Campus Universitário do Médio Araguaia e no Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos de Linguagem, do Campus de Cuiabá. Licenciatura em Letras - Português e Literaturas; Mestre em Estudos Literários pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Doutora em Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa (investigação e ensino), pela Universidade de Coimbra. Publicou, em co-autoria, com Célia Maria Domingues da Rocha Reis, a obra Pedro Casaldáliga e poética de emancipação, pela EDUFMT, em 2014.

Bruna Silveira Roncato

Professora Adjunta da Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso (UFMT). Doutora em Direito (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC-RJ); Mestre em Direito - área de concentração Direito e Relações Internacionais - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Atua na área de Direito Internacional Público, Ciência Política e Direito dos Povos indígenas.

Ilustração da capa da Edição volume 24 número 2 de 2022, apresenta a logo da Revista Ideação acima e o título "Linguagens e Poéticas Contemporâneas Interculturais", logo abaixo temos a ilustração Pirambola do artista Luis Napoli.

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Published

30-06-2022

How to Cite

VASCONCELOS MORAES, J.; LUZIA FRANCISCA DE SOUZA, M.; SILVEIRA RONCATO, B. Perspectivism in “before the world didn’t exist”. Ideação, [S. l.], v. 24, n. 2, p. 142–156, 2022. DOI: 10.48075/ri.v24i2.29101. Disponível em: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/ideacao/article/view/29101. Acesso em: 29 may. 2025.

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2022): Dossier: Intercultural Contemporary Languages ​​and Poetics

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