Cosmographies: the writing of indigenous research

Abstract

This text aims to problematize the processes of expressive creation, or rather, the “writing” of research by Indigenous academics’, which are constructed simultaneously with their own practices of knowledge. The method followed here articulates an ethnography of the expressive processes of Itsairu Huni Kuin, Indigenous Licentiate researcher from the Federal University of Acre (UFAC) – Campus Floresta, with a literature that includes three authors who discuss his own visionary thought. The result is the presentation of a way of writing specific to the researching approach of huni kuin academics who, instead of simply accounting, are putting their own way of knowing in practice. In the end, this way of writing implies another conception of language, based on the relational ontology of the peoples of Amazonia, in which political and social relations do not know of the limits between nature and culture.