Banca de DEFESA: ÉDER RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ÉDER RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS
DATE: 01/12/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Google meet
TITLE:

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KEY WORDS:

Vernacular Geographies, Indigenous, Ontology, Good Living.

PAGES: 327
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUMMARY:

This thesis focuses on understanding the conceptions of space of indigenous
peoples, with their possible proposals for the notion of territory in geographic language.
Such propositions are identified from the perspective of indigenous leaders, authors and
authors in Brazil, especially the Yanomami (RR) and Kaxarari (RO) people. The research
falls within the concentration area of the Postgraduate Program in Geography at the

Federal University of Rondonia (UNIR) entitled: Environment and Territory in the Pan-
Amazon, research line: Territory and Society in the Pan-Amazon. The speech of the

indigenous leader, Davi Kopenawa Yanomami: “The forest is intelligent, it has a
thought”, from an ontological perspective, published in the book A Queda do Ceu (2015),
allows us to open a debate to understand worldviews and the Bem Viver, generating
tension in the conceptions of territory as a geographical category. The study uses
indigenous shamanic ontology as its methodology, that allows us to access the cosmology
and relational aspects of these peoples with nature. The procedural methods are content
analysis of books, theses, dissertations, articles by indigenous authors, as well as
interviews with indigenous leaders. Our proposition is that the immanent relationship
between two variables, ontology and environmental knowledge, is demonstrated in
indigenous authorial works and in the collected narratives, since, in times of
environmental crises and threats to indigenous territories, there is an interest in this
communication with the world of non-indigenous people. Secondly, the thesis seeks to
demonstrate that the biointeractive relationship between Amerindian populations and the
forest allows us to see a possible geography of indigenous spatial epistemes that have in
their genesis the ontology of autochthonous peoples. In this sense, the thesis called
“Indigenous ontological geography: cosmovisions and paths to Good Living”, considers
that, for indigenous peoples, nature is full of spirits, immaterial beings who are the true
owners of territoriality, spatiality that must be considered by society as demarcated and
approved territory but, above all, that must be better understood in its ontological genesis,

a decisive phenomenon for the maintenance of life in the territory. Complain about it,
therefore, that the national state perceives the narratives of indigenous peoples with their
conceptualizations about the notion of territory, going beyond the Western conceptual
simplification of the term's economic or political bias. When considering the
interdependence of three dimensions that possibly generate indigenous well-being: the
environmental, the cosmological and the biopsychosocial cultural, what can be seen on
the horizon are the geographies of the indigenous world.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 396900 - JOSUE DA COSTA SILVA
Externo à Instituição - JOSÉ ROBERTO GOMES - UFAM
Externa à Instituição - MARIA AUGUSTA MUNDIM VARGAS - UFS
Externo à Instituição - MARIA CRISTINA BORGES DA SILVA - UFRJ
Interno - ***.978.969-** - NILSON CESAR FRAGA - UFPR