Etnografia e surdez: a experiência etnográfica na tradição do Amaro

Abstract

This disssertation is the result of the relationship I have established with the indigenous people Pankararé of Brejo do Burgo (BA), for about nine years. The research aims to analyze the Amaro Ritual as a derivation of the processes of transmission of external rituals between Pankararé and Pankararu, based on the sociology of exchange (Menta, 2019). In 2016, an incident in the field would leave me deaf, starting to occupy a new category: person with disabilities (PWD). The new identity forces me to rethink the way of doing ethnography, based on hearing as a privileged sense (Cardoso Oliveira, 2006), crippling (Mello, 2019), the traditional practices of doing and thinking anthropology, to include the category of disability from a critical (Ingold, 2008), political (Lopes, 2020), anthropological (Mello, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022) perspective.