Comrades of water: masters inventors of a mathematical language game involving another time and space

Authors

  • Juciara Guimarães Carvalho Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC/PPGECT.
  • Claudia Glavam Duarte Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS. Campus Litoral Norte. Tramandaí/RS.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/2236-6377.16.36

Keywords:

Mathematical Language Games, Time, Space, Artisanal Fishermen, Ethnomatematics.

Abstract

This article proposes to present understandings - sometimes disagreements - on a mathematical rationality that intertwines with the ways of inhabiting time and space experienced by artisanal fishermen in Florianópolis / SC and Tramandaí / RS. Seek evidence from the four language games Comrades D'water that formed inventors masters of time and space, as stated operating knowledge as the measurement division, regulation and ordination. At the same time, they are likely to create links between the family resemblances and discontinuities of language games present in each mar-pond. In artisanal fishing world time permits take time, but not a cliché time counted by the rigidity of the hands. We speak of another time that mixture is divided, escapes, flows, runs and stops. Time is fish. However, not only time but also space is fish. A smooth now, nomadic space, sometimes striated, but always alive, floating, gliding and mixing the ways to create conditions for territorialize, des-territorialize and re-territorialize. In short words, a time and a space other invented to give life to live.

Published

2016-12-20

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