Identidades fragmentadas: cultura e sociabilidades homoeróticas em Campina Grande.

Abstract

I think that anthropology is not close only to literature, but to other artistic modalities such as photography and movie theater. Like the first, anthropological investigation consists of registering blatant, moments, snapshots fixed by the analysis. Like the second, anthropology is in charge of creating apparently orderly and absolutely perspective and artificial plots, since no reality exists a priori and independent of the eyes of those who observe it. AND', therefore, with this allusion that I would like to conclude the present work. Throughout the research which started before it was even started - that is, and on which I began to reflect before becoming the object of academic research - I met people with whom I learned and without which I would not get anywhere. But, far from a finished picture. concluded, these people provided me with above all partial, subjective data, contingency. Probably the content of this dissertation would have been different if I had interviewed other individuals or even the same people at times and spaces others. In this sense, therefore, I simply recorded images, momentary plots and (living up to the theme of this study) fragmented. Thus, it is not a study about homosexuals in Campina Grande or the regulars of sociability, since my profile was even more limited. This work, in short, was based in people, just a few people, who, like all of us, are nothing; simply They are. In other words, they are not concrete and mobile essentials, but events governed by fluid and dynamic individual designs. Finally, I want to recall the famous maxim that Marx took it from Hegel, which consists of "everything that is solid disintegrates in the air". And what to say, So. of human identities always in motion and nothing solid, which insist on evolve into ashes faded from any sense ...