4nabisworld

This is a Brazilian, actually a carioca, writing from a very cold land called London. As most of you probably know, it’s not surprising that they talk so much about the weather over here, sun is a really BIG happening. So, why did I leave the lovely beaches from my hometown to come over here? Well... to pursue this crazy dream of becoming an anthropologist. You are probably wondering if by that I mean those people who study the evolution of the human being, well... not quite that. I won’t dare to try to define anthropology here (I already have a hard time doing that at my PhD), but there is something pretty common about all the definitions... anthropology is about understanding people. That’s what I love... people! Anthropology is just a way that I found to understand people, to connect to people, to learn with people, to communicate...

And that’s what I am here for, to communicate. To share with you the things that capture my attention during this journey, hopping that through my eyes, you can also get amazed with those strange people that I have been meeting. I might talk about people that I already knew, about people that I just met, about goods that people produce to express themselves, about exhibitions that portrait people, about well-known people or people just famous to me. And by sharing my interaction with the world, I hope to reach you... meet you... be with you! Even from far away...

The name of the blog tells a lot about it’s purpose. A story deserves to be told... I have this friend who shared with me a habit that she use to have when she was a child. When discovering a word that she did not like, she would change it’s pronunciation. So, for example, if she didn’t like the word bottle, she would pronounce it pottle, if it sounded better. Why? Because she liked it better. And so, some friends and I use to mock her about creating her own world... what we called Nabi’s world (Nabi being a distortion of her real name, Nati). And here I am, making a manifest for the Nabi’s world. For all those amazing people that through the smallest and unpretentious things dare to challenge the common perspective and create their own words to describe the world they see.

At last, by meeting worlds like Nabi’s, through me, I hope you can also find yourself... and create your own words to communicate...

Hello there!