THREATS TO RIVERS AND INDIGENOUS HERITAGE IN THE AMAZON: A VIEW FROM THE UPPER XINGU
Resumo
This article presents an overview of some of the main threats to Amazonian rivers and how they impact
the traditional ways of life of the indigenous peoples living in the planet’s largest rainforest. Based on
ethnographic research with the Kalapalo of the Upper Xingu, in the Southern Amazon, the article discusses
how this community has been dealing with transformations in their relationship with rivers and lakes
caused by environmental changes. Based on a dialogue between the Kalapalo ways of engaging with the
aquatic world and the critical ideas of Amerindian thinkers about what the West has conventionally called
‘nature’, it suggests the need to re-subjectivize the natural world as a condition for facing the challenges
of climate change in an alternative way to the naturalistic worldview consolidated in colonial modernity.
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