Capim dourado: artes do cerrado e as cosmopolíticas quilombolas

Abstract

This monograph addresses the quilombola cosmopolitics, as well as the arts of the cerrado that are produced with the native plant, golden grass in Jalapão (TO). The quilombola cosmopolitics proposes an ontological expansion of politics, as proposed by Stengers (1997), founding the possibility of the struggle for rights and coexisting with multiple realities. More than a specific domain of evidence, it becomes a connection principle between heterogeneous people (people, animals, plants, things, deities, values, symbolizations, etc.). The result of Quilombola experiences and knowledge considers the universe in its entirety to be a complex network of relationships that involve beings, natural and supernatural, integrating them into a collectivity. The handicraft produced with golden grass demonstrates the use of biodiversity by traditional communities, and its pieces made in the region of Jalapão (TO) have aesthetic and cultural value, reflecting the sensitivity of the local population and their relationship with nature. The study seeks to understand the network relationships, commercial practices, ways of know-how, cosmologies and politics of this secular artisanal practice. The research took place in the sociocultural context of the Covid-19 Pandemic, specifically in the Association of Artisans, in the city of Porto Nacional (TO). The main objective is to present the artisanal cosmopolitics of making golden grass handicrafts among quilombolas and non-quilombolas, and lead us to reflect on the links between art and handicraft elaborated by these artists. Ethnographic research poses the challenge of giving credibility to traditional knowledge and the peculiar abilities that make up the artisanal cosmopolitics of capim dourado.