Abstract
The material I present here was part of my research with the Kilombola Morada da Paz Community, located in Triunfo / RS, formed mostly by black women. The people who live there are considered daughters of an preta-velha, Mãe Preta, and an exu, Seu Sete, who guide the community and its members. Everything that happens in the world is part of what they call spirituality and participates in what they call “cosmic war”. My presence in the territory and the writing of the Thesis were not perceived as external to this. In this way, both fieldwork and writing were closely followed by the five oldest and founders of the community, known as Yas (the mothers) and Baba (the father). Insofar as they understand that “the word is magic”, the Thesis writing process produced effects in the community, which, in turn, directly interfered in it. In the process, an intercessor to the classic textual resource 'we and others' of Anthropology was produced. Another “we and others” was created in the text, at the invitation of Yas, in view of the ongoing “cosmic war”. It was up to me to translate, for Anthropology, the experimental effects of this creation.
Keywords:
Ethnography; Cosmopolitics; Black women; Quilombo