Transcendendo Fronteiras Entre Saberes: etnografia e interculturalidade entre os estudantes indígenas na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG)

Abstract

This dissertation aims to understand the relation between traditional and scientific knowledge, from the entrance of indigenous students at the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), especially in the area of Health and Environment. For this, we present the cosmology of Kaingang, as well as the current context in which the Kujà/healers from this people live. Furthermore, we show the trajectory of three indigenous students through the notion of etnobiography. They go through graduation processes in both courses (medical and nursing) as well as a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Education from this University. This work aims to understand the way knowledges are constituted in many indigenous lands as well as in institutional spaces, and contributing so that the passage of transmitting knowledge from speaking to writing surpasses the interculturalism.