The indigenous time markers and the ethnomathematics: the epistemological plurality of science

• Autor(a) principal: Filho, João Severino
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Januário, Elias R. da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Zetetiké (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/zetetike/article/view/8646645
• topic: Etnomatemática; Marcadores de tempos; Saber ambiental; Tempos indígenas; Etnomatemática; Marcadores de tempos; Saber ambiental; Tempos indígenas.; Ethnomathematics; Time markeres; Environmental knowledge; Indigenous times

This study addressed the phenomenon of Indigenous Times Markers as a socioculturalevent, from the look of indigenous teachers from different ethnia of Mato Grosso, students ofthe Indigenous Intercultural Faculty of Unemat. This phenomenon reveals itself as an exampleof extraordinary knowledge that indigenous societies have of themselves and of the territoriesthey inhabit, in a reciprocal relationship between the people and between these people and theenvironment, which brings the possibility of a scientifi c production impregnated and legitimized by them, which has as purpose and as condition to validate it, the environmental andsocial welfare. The time, characterized as resulting from the construction and expression of thelifestyles of one society, is designed from the “mathematical knowledge” and from the answersthe needs of theoric and spiritual transcendence of human beings. The mathematical knowledgein the Ethnomathematics Program´s perspective (D’AMBROSIO, 2002) pervades this dynamic of relationships and accommodates in its fundamentals the understanding that environmentand society are part of a single and indivisible body of research on the knowledge produced bydistinct cultural groups, as well as about the dynamic process of production, intellectual andsocial organization, and dissemination of this knowledge, besides the processes of adaptation andre-elaboration that accompany it.