Histórias que os Rostos Trilham: uma etnografia desenhada

Abstract

This ethnographic experience is an outline of Roque Figueroa’s conversations with four residents of the Comunidade do Trilho in the city of Fortaleza, state of Ceará, Brazil. Four lines that led her to develop and reflect on intersemiotic translations, leading from orality-memory to alphabetic writing and drawing. 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. These works are developed in the series “Histórias que os Rostos Trilham” (2017) 2. In this essay, the processes of these translations are described, aiming to reflect upon what an ethnography drawn can be.