PORANDUBA: a noção tupinambá de narrativa e o perspectivismo comunicacional

Abstract

This paper rescues the way narrative and communication were dealt by the Tupinamba people, the original nation of Rio de Janeiro, Bahia and Maranhão up until the 16th century. By stemming from the frameworks of Communication studies, History and Anthropology, this pre-colonial society‟s symbolic constructions about their understanding of narrative are examined in the light of the “decolonial turn.” In this sense, it is tried here to move away from the anthropocentrism of Cartesian matrixes and to bring onto the center of the stage the Tupinamba idea of poranduba – “news”, “lie”, or any narrative whatsoever – not taken by what is said (or uttered), but by what is heard.