What the urban white man’s eye doesn’t see, does not exist
Abstract
“According to the Yanomami, the forest is live and its beauty, its calm and its silence are not without reason. It is through the intense work of the auxiliary spirits xapiri, conceived as true ‘owners’ and ‘parents’ of the forest, that its cycles remain regimented and its wealth and continuous fertility benefit them. Moreover, it is the xapiri who protect the Yanomami and the forestland from all evil things, the evil beings në wari, and the spirits of the xawarari epidemic. According to Kopenawa, the forest only seems to be quiet and never change because the xapiri protect it with courage, pushing the windstorm Yariporari away from it, from throwing arrows at its trees, and from the being of chaos Xiwãripo, who continually tries to make it turn into another’ (Kopenawa, Albert; 2015, p 468).
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