Before The World Did Not Exist:  Sustainability, Amazonia and The Seven Capital Sins

Marcílio Freitas

Before The World Did Not Exist: Sustainability, Amazonia and The Seven Capital Sins

Authors

Marcílio de Freitas Department of Physics at the Federal University of Amazonas, Amazonas State, Brazil

Keywords:

Amazonia, environmental education, indigenous peoples, ethnosciences, anthropology of techniques

Abstract

This article presents connections between representations of Christianity, Amazonia and the sustainability. It also analyzes ruptures and convergences in approaches, explanatory languages and narratives of science and religion into sustainable processes and Amazonia. Several scientific and ethnological scenarios of the indigenous peoples from Brazilian Amazonia are presented.