The multiplicity of water in people's actions: body, gender, and materialities in a quilombo in Pernambuco
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https://doi.org/10.36920/esa-v30-1_st02Keywords:
water, gender, corporalities, materialities, fieldworkAbstract
This article is based on an ethnography of quilombola families in the countryside of Pernambuco. As I became more solidly established in the daily life of this community, my position in terms of gender and generation allowed me to shift my focus to local forms of using, classifying, and symbolizing water. Perceiving the multiplicity of water (in terms of sensory characteristics, qualities, effects, and relationships with bodies and collectivities) permits critical reflection on academic and government discourses on the semiarid region, which consider water a scarce natural resource. By focusing on the daily dynamics of water, the home emerged as a center from which the handling of water revealed connections between bodies and materialities. These connections proved valuable for thinking about the uses of water in relation to gendered work and attributions, conflicts, expectations and moral judgments, situations of prestige and humiliation, forms of care, and public presentation of bodies.
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Recebido: 11.15.2021 • Aceito: 04.04.2022 • Publicado: 20.05.2022
Original article / Blind peer review / Open access
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