Lá no alto se canta o tempo inteiro”: chant, hearing and resonance in Guarani Mbya livelihood.

Abstract

This article's central axis is the perception of kyringue mborai, the Guarani Mbya children’s chants, as an important key of the processes of teaching, learning and knowing and, therefore, of (trans)formation of the person guarani. This reverberates in a special attention to the body and, equally, to the sensibilization processes that constitute it, envisioned from the notion of learning to listen/feel (-endu). The enhancement of the sensitive field seems to occurs as the chants reverberate (or resound) in the body, what leads to the comprehension that to make sense is, before rationally understanding meaning, to make feel. Finally, the singing (to be heard) appears as a particular way of making last both life on Earth as the Earth itself.