Garimpeiras locais contra as Minas Gerais: o que elas me ensinaram sobre capitalismo e ciência

Abstract

This text was built weaving two narratives: the first is the concern of the people of São João da Chapada/MG with the increasing intensity of the invasion of capitalism within their lives and how they are dealing with this. The second is my concern in helping the invasion of all thing non-western and western deviants within archaeology and anthropology and how I’m dealing with that. Going through the paths that I planned I came across with the adaptational devices used by these people to survive without hanging themselves with the overlaps, clenches and tangles of the webs of relations being increasingly more influenced by the methods of domination of modernity and capitalism. In São João da Chapada we can see how much the acceleration of the process of enclosure and Science are the main disciplinary, colonizing and standardizing instruments used to push people even more towards the capitalist way of life. With that being the central concern of all, this work brings an account of these people’s resistances and sets out from there to understand the relations that happen. Guided by decolonial indigenous theorists and specially by my experiences in São João da Chapada I saw the need to make a text that isn’t just an ethnographical dissertation but to also experiment an inversion to this process and forge knowledges about archaeology guided by my fieldwork. I conclude with some considerations about how to construct other archaeological methodologies that could help us to destroy the patriarchal basis of our praxis.