How can we remain attentive to the scale of the environmental damage caused in traditional Maroon territories by the effects of the Plantationocene and the material vestiges of colonial and racial violence left by capitalism? Dwelling on conversations held with Maroon Cottica Ndyuka women living in Moengo, a small town established on the Cottica River in Eastern Suriname to support a bauxite industrial plant in the early twentieth century, this text seeks to illuminate what Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (2021) calls “elemental affinities,” relationships in which humans and more-than-humans interact in composing body and earth through refractive and diffractive effects. The paper observes how the women mixed and modeled clay, turning it into sculpted balls known as pemba or pemba doti, frequently used as a therapeutical and spiritual substance, and as food. In so doing, the text deals with processes such as creating, composing, undoing, decomposing, and perishing once the earth—as soil—takes part in and renders possible the existence of diverse creatures. This is a contribution toward an ethnography of (de)compositions of the earth that sets out from the affinities between earth and bodies, attentive to certain metamorphic possibilities, the multiplicities of relations in which soils act.

我们如何才能继续关注种植世的影响以及资本主义留下的殖民和种族暴力的物质遗迹对传统栗色领土造成的环境破坏的规模？本文深入探讨了与居住在莫恩戈 (Moengo) 的栗色科蒂卡·恩迪卡 (Maroon Cottica Ndyuka) 妇女的对话，莫恩戈是苏里南东部科蒂卡河上的一个小镇，二十世纪初为支持铝土矿工厂而建立，本文旨在阐明玛丽亚·普伊格·德拉贝拉卡萨 (Maria Puig de la Bellacasa) (2021)称为“元素亲和力”，即人类和超人类通过折射和衍射效应相互作用构成身体和地球的关系。这篇论文观察了妇女们如何混合和塑造粘土，将其变成被称为pemba或pemba doti的雕刻球，经常用作治疗和精神物质以及食物。在此过程中，文本涉及了一旦地球（作为土壤）参与并使得多种生物的存在成为可能时的创造、组成、破坏、分解和灭亡等过程。这是对地球组成（分解）的民族志的贡献，它从地球与身体之间的亲和力出发，关注某些变质的可能性，以及土壤作用的多重关系。