Pelos (des)caminhos de gentes, bichos e coisas: uma etnografia a pé na pampa brasileira.

Abstract

This ethnography results from following and discovering the paths of people, animals and things in the different landscapes of the Brazilian pampa. A heterogeneous pampa is presented, managed in becoming, constituting a tangle of relationships. Such a walk takes place with ranchers and family farmers and their worlds, while creative artisans weaving and plotting countless lines, of escape, of transformation, of life. Inserting themselves in flows and becoming, these artisans, living beings, become multiple, fragmented, multisituated and create a series of connections that lead to the discussion of the empty borders of agriculture / livestock, rural / urban, nature / culture, traditional / modern. Other plots lead to confrontations against modern colonial capitalism and its unwanted beings. Multiplicities are mixtures and deviations and, thus, are counter-narratives to the purification practices and policies of the State, corporations and their projects for the commodification of life. In that sense, such lines, made by following the tracks and connections, make up a series of questions. Therefore, be aware of the possibilities of making the pampa sustained in the experiences of the multiple lines that make up a pluriverse.