Experiências artísticas e encontros com alteridades: um estudo etnográfico dos ritmos e movimentos (a vida) no ambiente de um mercado público paraibano

Abstract

The work presented in this report is the result of a research developed in recent years, as an undergraduate student in Anthropology, with curricular emphasis in Visual Anthropology at the Federal University of Paraíba, Campus IV. The aim is to present an ethnographic narrative created from methodologies experienced through the use of drawings as a research tool. Between the turn of a Friday afternoon to Saturday dawn, I started to create a series of drawings that seek to represent, graphically, the movements and rhythms of exchanges and interactions at Rio Tinto’s public market Santo Agostinho (Saint Augustine), a city located in the northern coast of Paraíba, Brazil. Through the drawings its possible to identify techniques, methods, objects and things observed during ethnographic experiences, little by little, they were also perceived by the people at the public market and through them I developed different approaches, which allowed me to walk the paths of daily life through the drawn lines of these lived rhythms, pulsations that start to vibrate as a collective and social memory. The drawings are part of an ethnographic collection of drawings to be presented in this research report.