El Bosque Vuela. Taxonomías nativas, Mito e Hitoricidad entre los chamacoco o ishir del Alto Paraguay
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2005-09
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Centro de Estudios Sobre Diversidad Cultural
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Retomando anteriores elaboraciones vinculadas a nuestro trabajo en la Región del Chaco Boreal Paraguayo con los nivaclé del Chaco Central, abordamos un relato mítico de un informante clavo – “El Bosque Vuela” – que enfatiza la degradación del medio ambiente entre los chamacoco o ishir del Alto Paraguay, frontera con Brasil. Tal relato vincula las taxonomías nativas -y por tanto sus percepciones sobre la naturaleza- al devenir histórico de la etnia, permitiendo replantear la concepción levistrossiana sobre las relaciones entre mito e historia. Nuestra aproximación no sólo posibilita comprender el análisis crítico acerca del carácter de los vínculos del hombre “blanco” -incluídos los antropólogos- con los nativos y con la naturaleza del relato aportado; también permite entender lo que juzgamos como el verdadero sentido del mito en tanto discurso no solo pasible de “aprehender” la historia, sino de articular nuevos sentidos al devenir etnográfico y, por tanto, a la suerte actual de la etnia tal como es percibida por los propios actores.
Retaking previous elaborations linking to our work with nivaclé in Paraguayan Boreal Chaco Region we analyse a mythical story: “The Forest Flies”, from a key informant that emphasizes the enviromental degradation between chamacoco or ishir of the High Paraguay, border with Brazil. Such story, connect the native taxonomies -and therefore its perceptions about the natura- with the historical development of the ethnic group, allowing to reframe the levistrossian conception about the bounds between myth and history. Our approach makes possible to understand the critical analysis about the relations od the “white man”, including anthropologists, with the native ones and with the nature of the story mentioned before. It also allows to understand what we judge as the true sense of the myth as a speech that can help us “to apprehend” the history, and to articulate new senses when ethnographic happening and, therefore, with present luck of the ethnic group as it is perceived by the own actors.
Retaking previous elaborations linking to our work with nivaclé in Paraguayan Boreal Chaco Region we analyse a mythical story: “The Forest Flies”, from a key informant that emphasizes the enviromental degradation between chamacoco or ishir of the High Paraguay, border with Brazil. Such story, connect the native taxonomies -and therefore its perceptions about the natura- with the historical development of the ethnic group, allowing to reframe the levistrossian conception about the bounds between myth and history. Our approach makes possible to understand the critical analysis about the relations od the “white man”, including anthropologists, with the native ones and with the nature of the story mentioned before. It also allows to understand what we judge as the true sense of the myth as a speech that can help us “to apprehend” the history, and to articulate new senses when ethnographic happening and, therefore, with present luck of the ethnic group as it is perceived by the own actors.
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Alto Paraguay, Etnicidad, Taxonomía nativa, High Paraguay, Native taxonomy.