Notes on Yanomami dreams
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https://doi.org/10.11606/1678-9857.ra.2022.197980Keywords:
Yanomami, dreams, image, nostalgia, deathAbstract
This article seeks to understand some aspects of Yanomami dreams, such as their relationship with the night and with the pei utupë – the “vital image”, one of the constituents of the Yanomami person. To highlight these connections, I present the daily life of a collective house and moments of a reahu intercommunity feast. I also touch on the myth of the origin of night and the notions of the Yanomami person and cosmos, seeking to demonstrate how the relationship between the night, the emergence of the ability to dream, and the feeling of longing, presupposes another relationship between the night and the manifestation of the pei utupë. I also try to demonstrate how the reahu intercommunity feast, when funeral rites are held, is a simulacrum of the heavenly life of the spirits of the dead (pore), the posthumous destiny of the Yanomami, the feast thus taking the form of a great dream.
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