Mnemo-escritas de tinta e pele: uma etnografia desenhada das memórias da comunidade do trilho

Abstract

This monograph was inspired by the ethnographic experience that began with the conversations I had with four residents of the ‘Comunidade do Trilho’, in the city of Fortaleza, state of Ceará, Brazil. Four talks that led me to develop and reflect on intersemiotic translations, that started from orality-memory to alphabetic writing and then to the drawing. This experience resulted in the series "Histórias que os Rostos Trilham" (2017), which are four portraits done with manual writing. This cycle of transmodal translations is linked to a way of perceiving anthropology; one that focuses on translations processes between the different semiotic means (oral, written, plastic) that set as technical, epistemic and ethical challenges the establishment of knowledge production. In the present work, I describe the processes of these translations, aiming at a reflection on the possibilities that exist, besides the literary writing text, for the translation of histories of the otherness.