See, read and think with baniwa graphics: weaving new plots

Abstract

This essay briefly presents the research and writing movements carried out through learning with braids and the visuality of baniwa graphics. Based on the experience of shared research and collective pedagogical actions at the Kariamã indigenous school, we sought to bring the Baniwa teaching-learning dynamics – mainly related to weaving in arumã straw and the making of designed objects, considering the various formative dimensions of these practices - as drivers of reflective movements. In this composition, a braided writing was constructed, which aims to encourage new ways of producing and communicating knowledge, stimulating dialogues between different epistemologies. Through discussions focused on education - with reference to field experiences, the educational paths of indigenous schools and the analyzes of different researchers from the upper Rio Negro region (Baniwa A., Luciano) -, I mobilize braiding as a instrument that raises awareness of new views of intercultural plots. Thus, with the braids, different rhythms of thinking, learning, communication, writing and reading are interconnected.