HORSE-GRAVEDIGGER

About imagination and ethnographic writing

Authors

  • Ivan Gomes Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1984-1191.132414

Keywords:

Imagination, Bricolage, Ethnographic Writing

Abstract

The following text rehearses, in a bricolage way, seams, fits and couplings between ideas and ways of thinking inspired by the dialogues between Anthropology, Philosophy and Literature, in order to reflect about the creation process and encourage poetic ethnographies that approach the experience-limit of the limit, in order to sharpen the senses and exercise the reader's imagination. In a conjuncture in which imagination is captured and capitulated by negationisms that kill, and disenchantment prepares the ground for the sowing of hatred and the ethics of indifference; and in contexts of a supposed capitalist realism, in which it seems easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism; the effort to identify the ways of thinking that, by force of habit, silently feed the unbridled beast, and the deliberate choice to take on the task of telling other stories that can help us follow other paths, are ethical attitudes that take on more than relevant political contours: urgent.

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Published

2023-05-11

How to Cite

GOMES, Ivan. HORSE-GRAVEDIGGER: About imagination and ethnographic writing. ILUMINURAS, Porto Alegre, v. 24, n. 64, 2023. DOI: 10.22456/1984-1191.132414. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/iluminuras/article/view/132414. Acesso em: 30 aug. 2026.