Valorização linguística e formas de escritura indígena entre povos do Alto Solimões: grafismos Tikuna, Omagua e Kokama

Abstract

Focused on studying the culture of three indigenous people – Tikuna, Omagua and Kokama – and based on the relationship among graphisms, paintings, drawings (art) and school life, this thesis considered that indigenous graphisms were close to scripture: belonging to oral societies, their values resided in their interpretation, inventiveness, content production and in triggering of memories, perceptions and ways of being. The hypothesis presented here is that graphisms/painting are fundamental parts of oral societies and, as such, can be maintained, even with the adoption of a writing system external to the group. From the linguistic point of view, notably in the Tikuna case, the field research allowed a lexical survey (with morphological constitution analysis) to be carried out throughout the work. The data gathered in the lexical survey showed words linked not only to graphisms/paintings, but also to other aspects of the Tikuna language. These facts allowed the constitution of a word gallery, with consequent valorization and linguistic contribution to the construction of dictionaries, As a pioneering work, there is, regarding the Tikuna people, a study of paintings/graphisms with an internal look into the people themselves. In the presentation of the existing visual patterns, linked to these three people, the author also showed a drawing created from an already existing pattern. The author intends to make his contribution to the Omagua and Kokama people strengthening their process of recovery / resumption of memory. To the Tikuna people, in addition to the maintenance and dissemination of traditional knowledge among the younger ones, this work provides, within the scope of Basic Education, elements for the creation of a channel of interdisciplinarity that has in graphisms an important axis.