African and indigenous cosmologies Amazon Marajoara

Abstract

In dialogue with historiographies of contacts with Indians and Africans at Amazon, registration images of native art in ceramic, pipes, baroque altar and literary narratives, which reconstruct remarks of indigenous cultures and their exchanges with African cultures in the Marajoara Amazon from the seventeenth century, this essay tries to visualize practices "decoloniais" in territories of "colonial difference" experienced by Indians, blacks and afroindians between countries and forests in the region. The study central perspective relays on demonstrate that cosmologies of oral tradition groups are explaining of the many expressions of their ways of life practiced and shared in the Amazon, though little explored by scholars of the diaspora, operated established cultural meanings of struggles cunningly against the domination of their arts, bodies and thinking for groups in power in the colonial context. In contemporary times, these cosmologies have been continually reaffirmed through the recreating of knowledge, dances, chants, religiosity, and other expressions of sociability as tangible and intangible afroindian heritage in this Amazon portal.