Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ÉDER RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ÉDER RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS
DATE: 01/12/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Google meet
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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 PanAmazon, 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. It is suggested, 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 biosocial, 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