Connecting with Transparent Amazonia. The Afroindigenous Body and the Communication beyond Elites
Abstract
In Brazil, the term quilombola –or afroindigenous peoples in certain anthropological traditions– designates the descendants of runaway African slaves who formed communities in Amazonia and other isolated places. Circumventing the ethno-historical parameters of “quilombolismo”, in this essay I suggest rethinking local forms of political identification and communication through an ethnography of the body. I draw on fieldwork conducted between 2006 and 2019 in the Erepecurú River (Pará, Brazil) to render visible the afroindigenous body as a medium which might be there, but appears as a transparent entity in most part of militant literature on black Amazonia. From this less visible Amazonia, I will argue that the afroindigenous body materialises an efficient mean of communication and recreates a sociopolitical collectivity underneath local, institutional and intellectual elites.
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