Traces and marks beyond human

Abstract

This essay took place through an incursion to the Igarapé do Baré, a watercourse of black waters that flows into the headwaters of Lake Amanã, which gives name to a Sustainable Development Reserve, in the lower Japurá River, State of Amazonas. The research I have been developing has an ethnographic character and comes from archaeological questions about construction and transformation of places, connecting them to the process of anthropization of the biome. It seeks to understand how contemporary riverside collectives are inserted and relate to the ancient history of Amazon and landscapes where archaeological sites are. The images are like vestiges of my own research path in archaeology as a practice of meaning. These photographs are indices of an expansion of a view- previously directed at human marks about the places – now filled with signs and traces of animals, plants and cosmological beings that populate the waters and forests of Amanã.