Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul slide image

Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul

GOOD LIVING IN GUARANI COSMOVISION AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE EXISTING SYSTEM Ir. Margot Bremer, rscj 24 (...) Being Guarani in Inter-relationship with the Land/Earth In Guarani cosmovision, the earth inhabited by humans is conceived as tekoha4 [25] [25], place of life and coexistence with all beings existing in it. The word tekoha contains a holistic vision, at the same time it signifies and produces economic, social, political, ecological and religious meaning fundamental for Guarani life, such that "without tekoha there is no teko (life)". The Guarani necessity for the land is interior to the entirety of life, in order to be able to live their culture and to be Guarani. Inthe report of an anonymous Jesuit, from 1620, the fundamental structure of Guarani tekoha is described in three types of spaces that demonstrate forms of coexistence with the earth: 1) the forest preserved and utilized only as a place of hunting and fishing; 2) the cultivatable forest utilized for horticulture, and 3) habitable space, the home as a social and religious and even political space; their lives being concentrated there. All aspects oftheearth/land in their indissoluble interrelationship between ecology, economy and community, are in turn co- penetrated by a religious experience: "For the Guarani the earth is + INDIGENIST MISSIONARY COUNCIL - CIMI 24 Theology Assessor of the National Indigenous Pastoral Coordination CONAPI - Paraguay. Access the full article at: http://www.cimi.org.br/pub/MS/Viol_MS_2003_2010.pdf S
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