Let’s not miss the good way: notes toward a mbya guarani aesthetics

Abstract

The presente text searchs to understand what the Mbya Guarani consider to be a walk through the “good way” (tape porã), exploring the possibilities of comprehension offered by the strathernian concept of aesthetics. At first we investigate the personal and corporal dispositions for a beautiful walk. Dispositions which can be translate into a certain way of listening or perceive with the body, capting the senses of  objects and subjects which can affect the person positively or negatively. We suggests also that there is between the “good road” and “do mistakes to yourself” (nhembotavy rei, which is to desviate from that road) a complementary relationship, as to arrive to that one must experiment the things of a “bad road” or the “mistakes” of the road. At last, we search to show that walk through a good or beautiful road doesn’t exclude the passages through bad or evil roads, showing that in this passages one can find the possibilities of creation of a new moral and body.