Jajepota ka’aguy rokýre. Being enchanted by forest's sprouts.

Abstract

This article was born from several exchanges of ideas and reflexions between a Guarani Mbya indigenous thinker and a non-indigenous anthropologist about plants, the Atlantic Forest, Guarani language and the Guarani people. We adopted a narrative strategy in multiple voice-records, which brings the thought of Carlos Papá as its protagonist, sharing the Guarani narratives and bringing the originality and relevance of thinker’s stories and analysis about the cosmology of his people. Through plant images and aesthetics of this Guarani thought, we suggest to experience an enchantment with the “sprouts” as a way to understand the Mbya critique of the Western notion of forest and Atlantic Forest. Through our “ethnographic pact”, we bring a cosmopolitical proposal to build bridges between different cultural universes, taking indigenous thought seriously, that requires us learning to dance and infiltrate the world in a more respectful way, acquiring awareness to germinate other ways to exist.