ENCANTARIAS DISSIDENTES Artistas trans e travestis e suas cosmovisões do encantado a partir da vivência no culto do Tambor de Mina em Belém do Pará.

Abstract

This dissertation focuses on the cosmovisions of the enchanted and the practice of enchantment in a Tambor de Mina on the outskirts of Belém, seeking to understand how its practitioners, young trans/travestite artists, have articulated this cosmos with issues of sexual and gender dissidence, in order to think about the body, the city and the retaking of Afro-indigenous epistemics. Thus, based on the experiences of these subjects, I seek to identify, at the intersection of spirituality, art and religiosity, memories, reflections and nominations that bring forth images and imaginaries of the enchanted in the elaboration of their subjectivities, and processes of self-affirmation of identity, imbricated with notions of belonging, the city, Afro-indigenous ancestry, defense of the material and immaterial territory of the Amazon, and processes of healing against the colonial project. In an approach that privileges the analysis of the ethnographic context and the speeches of these subjects based on the problematization between transgenderism/travesty and spirituality, this research is dedicated to understanding how the enchanted and the practice of enchantment produce meaning for their practitioners, collaborating for their individual and community emancipation in the production of the debate on gender, sexuality and race, from the Amazon as well as the mobilization of the arts as an aesthetic tool for the flow of this knowledge. The intention is to give intelligibility to ways of producing knowledge by recognizing the thought-making of these subjects and their contributions to the construction of Brazilian identity, on bodies overflowing with sexuality and gender.