Desenhar para conhecer: experimentações como fissuras epistêmicas na antropologia

Abstract

The path to constructing a drawn thesis is winding, like any other organic element; it develops gradually. Through conversations with colleagues, professors, and research interlocutors, relationships were intertwined, and they also modified the way I initially thought about the research and the relationship between anthropology and drawing. Just as my drawing followed this branched process of understanding what it would mean to experiment in Anthropology. In two notebooks (notebook 01: drawing concepts and notebook 02: drawing ethnographies) that grow into five brochures, I share the production of thought, to experiment with various languages within the structure of constructing scientific thought, containing drawings, photographs, and poems, since graphic productions expanded along the way. The interest of the research was to highlight drawing as a possible path for ethnographic production, in addition to highlighting it as a pedagogical resource for anthropological training, within the academic disciplinary structure at the university. As I developed the idea of concept drawing, I constructed a graphic narrative about my process as a black woman in graduate school that is fundamentally about articulating anthropological theories and their fissures in the contemporary world. When researching the teaching of Anthropology through drawing, that is, doing an Anthropology of Anthropology, connections, and epistemic ruptures were established between writing and drawing in the various ways of producing knowledge in Anthropology