Davi Kopenawa

This paper aims to explain how the book The Falling Sky, by the Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa and the French anthropologist Bruce Albert, brings out another perspective of the discussion about the nature of the structuring dichotomy of colonial thought between Nature and Culture. This other perspective modifies the mystifying framework of the idea of nature as a homogeneous, in itself, as an essentialist notion, and allows for thinking that reconfigures the dichotomy of a disconnected, opposing, and inimical politics of nature. In The Falling Sky, nature is constitutive of the very cosmic vision of the political. Thus, another perspective of the relationship with the other and another notion of (human) identity and the identity of nature appears within a cosmopolitan that resists juridical-political impositions and colonial subjectivity.