In Brazil’s Costa Verde, local communities are tapping into the ancient stillness beneath their town’s thrum

Another gold rush followed: the transportation of Arabica coffee beans, or “black gold”, to Europe. Then, in the mid 19th century, a railway was built connecting Rio and São Paulo, cutting the port out of Brazil’s economic loop. Time spooled backwards. Buildings devoured by termites collapsed behind their façades. Meanwhile, Caiçaras – the coastal people of South Brazil, descended from a mix of Portuguese, freed Africans and Indigenous people – quietly subsisted through…