ETNOASTRONOMIA, COSMOLOGIA E PERSPECTIVISMO AMERÍNDIOS
ETHNOASTRONOMY, COSMOLOGY AND AMERINDIAN PERSPECTIVISM

Author(s): Flávia Cristina de Mello
Subject(s): Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Cultural Astronomy; Ethnoastronomy; Cosmology; Perspectivism Amerindian; Indigenous Americans
Summary/Abstract: This article results from participation in the Third School and Second Interamerican Conference on Cultural Astronomy, at the first annual meeting of the Interamerican Society for Astronomy in Culture (SIAC) whose theme was “interpretation in cultural astronomy.” It deals with the conceptual aspects that have helped to address the topic of cultural astronomy through astronomy education activities and the training of indigenous teachers of the Guaraní, Tupinambás and Pataxó Hãhãhãe ethnic groups. We briefly describe the elements of the Guaraní and Tupinambá cosmological systems to reflect on the concepts of ethnoastronomy, cosmology, and Amerindian perspectivism and the analytical functioning of these concepts, not only to think about the cultural contexts of contemporary indigenous peoples but also to support the reflections on the cultural systems addressed by archaeoastronomy such as the Mayan, Aztec and Inca people, for example. At the same time, despite extreme cultural changes experienced by the indigenous peoples of America, some cosmological elements such as the importance of the main gods, the sun, and the moon, and their temporal continuity, seem to be transcontinental.

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