The knowledge of the guardians of modes of being – teko jára, inhabitants of tangible and intangible patamars of existence, and the production of the collectives kaiowá and guarani

Abstract

The text reflects on the knowledge mobilized in the production and reproduction of the kaiowá and guarani collectives in MS, considering the knowledge system defined by them as traditional – ava reko ymaguare. Such a system is articulated based on basic principles in the construction of the person and in social conduct. The fronts of economic expansion imposed territorial confinement and, in this adverse scenario, leaders devise strategies for transforming their own social system, experimenting with forms of collective associations, which they called ava reko pyahy. Thus, the shamans – Ñanderu – use references from the knowledge system itself to understand, transform and transgress territorial confinement and the scarcity of environmental resources. The Ñanderu persist in the effort to raise relatives and villages, in connection with the teko jára, guardians of ways of being, carried out in tangible and intangible plans of existence, insisting on the connectivity between the various planes of the cosmos.