Five Lives: transvestilidades, gender, sexualities, and ethnicities in Paraíba/Brazil

Authors

  • Martinho Tota Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2015.108571

Keywords:

“Travestilidade”, Sexuality, Gender, Ethnicity, Life Stories

Abstract

The most important social and anthropological studies about lesbians, gays, transvestites and transsexuals produced in Brazil was made in urban or metropolitan context, so that we unknow about how people experience sexualities and gender identities that diverge from the “heterosexual matrix” in other areas, such as rural areas, small towns or indigenous territories. Moreover, in the specific case of the works on transvestites, we observed an mecanic and appellant association between “travestilidade” and prostitution. Thus, this article aims – from the life stories of five indigenous transvestites, inhabitants of cities in the state of Paraíba – provide a contribution to aggregate other components to researchers investiganting transvestites as well as blend the problem of prostitution through speeches and biographical peculiarities of my five interlocutors

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Author Biography

  • Martinho Tota, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
    Doutor em Antropologia Social pelo Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Pesquisador associado do Laboratório

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Published

2015-12-22

Issue

Vol. 58 No. 2 (2015)

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How to Cite

Tota, M. (2015). Five Lives: transvestilidades, gender, sexualities, and ethnicities in Paraíba/Brazil. Revista De Antropologia, 58(2), 173-207. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2015.108571