Abstract
This essay examines ideas surrounding growth, based on experiential insights gained by the author while staying with indigenous leaders of the Kariri-Xoco in Northeastern Brazil as part of an artistic residency organised by Thydewa (NGO). This is not an ethnographic study, but a reflection into indigenous modes of learning through co-participation in the lifeworld, and how these learnings can help enrich a contemporary ontological debate on animism and indigeneity beyond identitary frameworks. The work also touches on a critique of developmentalism, through indigenous ideas concerning growth and change. Some insights into the performing arts practice developed with the Kariri-Xoco as part of the residency are also touched upon.
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