IDEA TO POSTPON THE END OF THE WORLD: THE SUBJECT OF AMERINIAN PHILOSOPHY WITH GRADUATES FROM THE INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS

Abstract

The objective of this article is to expose the experiences that students had when they studied the Amerindian Philosophy discipline at the Federal University of Amazonas on the Humaitá – AM campus with graduates of the courses offered on the Campus. The subject offered by the Pedagogy course at the Institute of Education, Agriculture and Environment – ​​IEAA, was prepared as a suggestion by the Arandu Group of Studies and Research in Philosophy with a view to problematizing indigenous thought and cosmologies in their dimensions of knowledge in order to promote the encounter between academic theoretical issues and Amerindian understandings of the world. The authors chosen were philosophers and indigenous authors such as Ailton Krenak, Célia Xakriabá, Daniel Munduruku, Davi Kopenawa, Eliane Potiguara, Gersem Baniwa, Linda Tuhawi Smith, among others. Among these, we highlight the writing of Ailton Krenak in his work Ideas to postpone the end of the world, which allowed us to discuss topics with guests who, based on Krenak's speech about the critical capacity of building colored parachutes that help us to have different worldviews and realize that in Amerindian Philosophy there is a power of philosophizing that does not have just one meaning. In this way, based on what was experienced, read and seen in the discipline, students build colorful parachutes also telling their stories and, thus, contribute with these stories to postpone the end of the world. Therefore, we tell other stories below.