A experiência da nomeação das crianças Guarani como educação espiritual.

Abstract

This article presents some reflective sections extracted from the postdoctoral research developed with the indigenous peoples of the Guarani ethnic group, who live in the Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. It is proposed to reflect on the education and constitution of the human being from the cosmologies of this people, seeking to understand these processes from the ritual of naming the Guarani child, shamanism, and the processes that lead to the transformation of the person into an animal, according to the Amerindian conception. Based on these understandings, we can broaden the notion of spirituality in the context of Amerindian education, and deepen the research on shamanic epistemology and childhood experience, with contributions from Jungian Psychology. The research was developed from the autoethnographic perspective in studies with Guarani leaders and teachers.