Fuxico do bem : alinhavos entre memória, educação e bordado no quilombo de mituaçu (Conde/PB)

Abstract

Between 2022 and 2023, embroidery workshops were held as part of the "Histórias de Quilombo" extension project, in partnership with the Fuxico do Bem group, made up of artisans from the quilombo community of Mituaçu (Conde/PB) and UFPB professors and students. As a scholarship holder, I acted as a workshop leader and some questions arose: How could embroidering with others bring up relevant issues to writing a monograph? How does an activity that I do so quietly and passively relate to my degree? How would a manual practice meet community issues? How could meeting other people to embroider with for an afternoon be science? These questions about how I have learned to produce knowledge and teach were only possible through the workshops. This movement of developing questions through embroidery is what I have called tactile-reflexive practice. In the lines, both textual and textile, I share some ethnographic fuxicos from the Mituaçu community and present the craft of embroidery as an anthropological, ethical, creative, shared and educational activity.