FOOD PRODUCTION OR CULTIVATION OF LIFE? REMARKS ON THE GUARANI ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION IN THEIR GROWING CROPS
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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2015.16059Keywords:
Guarani. Food Culture. Sacred. Agricultural Practices.Abstract
This article presents an ethnography produced among thecontemporary Guarani from the mbya ethnic group living in anindigenous land in the state of Paraná, Brazil, and scrutinize howactivities geared towards food production are deeply connectedwith the Guarani thought regarding existential aspects and therelationship with divinity. Plant growing for human consumptionproduces specific modes of formation and reproduction of theGuarani social world. Daily actions involved in plant growthmust be in balance with contemplative attitudes, enabling theconcomitant experience of the ordinary and sacred dimensionsof Guarani human life on Earth. Thus, it can be considered thatagriculture manifests a laborious way to manufacture the inner,the domestic life, but also its strength acting upon relationswith the outside world, the socius, expressing in its own way, thedependence of the Guarani realm on their gods. Plant productionwould, at the same time, modernize the Guarani condition andtheir descent from divinity, while simultaneously reproducingsacred plants in the dwelling of gods and here on Earth.
DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2015.16059
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