Uma Perspectiva Vegetal no Nordeste Indígena Brasileiro

Abstract

The changes among all indigenous peoples in the Northeast in socius and ecology when seen from a ‘longue durée of transformation' are highly significant. Animals to be hunted like wild pigs and animals like jaguars are extinct or almost extinct. Under these ecological conditions, for example, certain relations with the animal domain like a hypothetical perspectivism seem to be difficult to maintain. On the other hand, research has been done on the relation between religious domain and plants and the presence of the entheogen Jurema is a distinctive mark of the region. Here the aim is to proceed with a survey of this ethnographic context in order to investigate the importance of a vegetal reign perspective, concentrating upon some key-trees and hence detect the salience of the vegetal domain among several Northeastern peoples. That is, the article aims at prospecting the complexes of the vegetal indigenous science of the longue durée, artefact of indigenous recreations while subjected to the conditions of a colonial and, later, infracolonial state. The objective envisages taking stock of available, but little known, knowledge, add pertinent information, including botanics, and point to some future analytical possibilities.