Lessons about indigenous investigation: El Mahku – artist´s Huni Kuin movement

Abstract

This text aims to carry out the ethnography of Espirito da floresta’s project activities. The project is located in Grado indígena of Federal de Acre University, Campus Floresta, department of Acre, Brasil and MAHKU - Movimiento dos Artistas Huni Kuin. The huni-kuin chants and rituals researchers organize themselves ever since they started using visual arts to translate their vast imaginary universe which is expressed through music in their verbal arts. It´s understood that the activities carried out as an alternative way of learning −in reference to school and other academic spaces−, can contribute to the dilemmas found in experiences of indigenous education, both in Brazil and in other Latin-American countries.

Keywords: Collaborative research, indigenous education, art education, translation, inter-semiotic translation.