Uma (in)versão da história do brasil:

a queda do céu, de Davi Kopenawa e Bruce Albert

Abstract

The History books of Brazil begin with the narrative of the discovery. After that, they talk about the genocide committed against indigenous peoples. This ordination indicates attachment to writing strength against orality and legitimizes the possession of the land by the colonizer. Knowing primacy of writing in whites’ world, Davi Kopenawa ask the anthropologist Bruce Albert to record his words in a book. A queda do céu results from that. To the shaman, writing proves that white thinking is “full of forgetfulness”. Even so, he uses it to alert to right to existence of culture and ways of life of his people. In that book, the Indian is the subject, not the victim of history process. If we read it as a possible version of Brazil’s history, maybe we will invert some assumptions about the power of writing and we will not let the History (with capital H) repeat itself.