Dissertação (Mixtape): na humildade sampleando a quebrada para desenrolar na antropologia

Abstract

In the quebrada of Heliópolis, anually on the Sunday before Christmas, the famous soccer team Flor de São João Clímaco performs in its Villa Arapuá’s field the party of the Black Versus White’s Game, a festival that mobilizes residents of Heliopolis and surroundings. The event took place forty-four years ago, and, since the first editions, it updates two premises that knowledge teaches. Firstly, to celebrate the friendship. Secondly, it is sought to establish whether the best is the black or the white ones. Not excluding the differences, it’s in the first premise that I prefer to conduct the mind to reflect with the quebrada. Thereby, when we take the opportunity to celebrate the friendship at the Black Versus White, beyond engaging in a celebration, we experience the situation of producing connections and differences between we, who are from the quebrada. With these teachings, the Black Versus White suits me as a metaphor to express the writing of this dissertation. In each pen’s movement, I seek to establish connections and contrasts between my quebrada and Anthropology in a single narrative regime. A writing that places the epistemological problem of the knowledge’s possibilities when the thinker has the opportunity to join the university through affirmative actions and chooses to study Anthropology to master the quebrada’s knowledge that projected him to the world. Humbly, this dissertation is part of my struggle, and, because of the method that struggles for the right, I could only present what follows in the shape of this mixtape. In the A-side, I present a more conceptual stuff, and, in the B-Side, the tracks aims a certain type of narrative about my quebrada, in which I intend to develop with the master’s degree in social anthropology.