Devir-fungo: uma experimentação etnográfica com a fermentação

Abstract

What can we learn from the making of fungi worlds and the assemblies constituted by them together with humans and myriad other beings? This is one of the questions raised by this research/essay/experiment that aims to signal the ongoing fungal insurrection and to highlight processes within which substances and words can still transform, ferment. In a first moment, initial exercises with fungi are described as well as some questions about ethnomicological studies in the Amazon and about what could be speculated as a fungal turn in anthropology. Next, I depart from a collection of ethnographies of the peoples of the Rio Negro - this people of transformation - to outline the paths of research around the multi-species fermentation of the caxiris. The text then converges to an ethnographic experiment on the making of a caxiri made of purple cará with the Tukano people. The last chapter of the work is also about witnessing the encounter between artists and scientists in a residence aboard a laboratory boat that glided through Amazonian landscapes during the fungicosmology expedition.