Dona Romana

This outreach and ethnographic research focused on the house of Dona Romana, an 83-year-old quilombola resident of Natividade, Tocantins. Since 1973, she has been building, based on visions and dreams, a "firmament" designed to preserve water, seeds, books, and objects for the reconstruction of life after the "big day." Her home is a unique space of resistance, memory, and popular creativity, articulating local cosmologies, safeguarding practices, and experiences of the future. This work was done in collaboration with Marcelo Santos Rodrigues (UFT), as part of the GrPesq project we coordinate, History, Memory, and Latin American Narratives.