Cartografias nômades: ensaios de estética e antropologia

Abstract

This thesis intends to formulate a concept of nomadism as a form of thought inseparable from a relationship with the landscape. Using philosophical, ethnographic, literary and cartographic ources, the thesis seeks to characterize a becoming-nomad that crosses different communities, nstead of supposing a rigid opposition between nomads and sedentary people. By traversing ifferent landscapes – the desert, the savannah, the forest, the sea and the city – the thesis seeks o investigate how different communities and nomadic characters conceive space and time and he relationship between beings, thus, an own aesthetic and ontology. The desert and savanna are rossed by the transhumance herders Tamacheque and WoDaaBe, whose relationship with the attle and the landscape is expressed in the systems of colours and songs. Aché hunter-gatherers raverse the forest, whose relationship with other beings is understood in terms of a generalized tual predation. The desert and the forest overlap on the island, from where another conceptual character emerges: the castaway as a sea nomad. The city becomes the scenario for an xperience of reverse anthropology with the Aché, who return the questions posed by Western thought. rom the desert to the forest, passing through the savannah, from the islands to the cities, crossing the sea, this thesis seeks to map nomadic landscapes