https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/6476 2026-04-17T08:09:13Z 2026-04-17T08:09:13Z Santos, Daisy Conceição https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44385 2026-04-15T17:11:37Z 2026-01-05T00:00:00Z

MODA AFRO - AFRO (NA) MODA: REFLEXÕES SOBRE O CONSUMO DE MODA AFRO E RELAÇÕES IDENTITÁRIAS EM DUAS DIÁSPORAS AMERICANAS Santos, Daisy Conceição Sousa Júnior, Vilson Caetano This thesis investigates how ethnic identities are constructed and expressed through the consumption of Afro fashion in two central cities of the Black diaspora in the Americas: Salvador (Brazil) and New York (USA). Drawing from the fields of consumer anthropology and racial studies, the research seeks to understand the role of Afro fashion in the (re)affirmation of Blackness, as well as who produces and consumes these cultural goods, and with what motivations. The investigation articulates multi-sited ethnography (with participant observation conducted in both cities), autoethnography, semi-structured interviews with producers and consumers, in addition to some virtual ethnographic analyses. The results indicate that, although Afro fashion is consolidated in the consumer market, it is traversed by racism and market disputes in both territorial poles. Consumption, in turn, reveals itself as a practice of belonging, reclaiming identity, a sense of community, and image construction, operating simultaneously as an aesthetic, political, and affective gesture. It can be concluded that Afro fashion acts as a device for identity agency in diasporas and as a field for the elaboration of visual narratives that reconfigure the Black presence in contemporary urban spaces. Universidade Federal da Bahia Tese

2026-01-05T00:00:00Z González Cabrera, Edward Armando https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44373 2026-04-14T18:08:35Z 2025-11-28T00:00:00Z

O momento em que eu me construo”: Técnicas do corpo e construção da pessoa fitness em academias no Brasil e na França González Cabrera, Edward Armando Vega Sanabria, Guillermo Fitness today establishes itself as a global phenomenon, driven by the rapid expansion of gyms and discourses valorizing physical and sports activity (PSA) as an instrument of self-production. This research examines the social building of the "fitness person" throughout a learning process of body techniques and interwoven social class, gender, and race relationships. How is the fitness person constructed as both a social and subjective category within transnational franchise gyms in Brazil and France? At the intersection of anthropology and sociology, this comparative ethnography is based on nearly seven non-continuous years of fieldwork (2017-2024) in two transnational franchises: Body Fit (in Brazil) and Perfect Body (in France) – combining participant observation, 50 semi-structured interviews, and 873 quantitative observations. The results indicate that the fitness person emerges as a social figure. Both globalized and locally situated, it is characterized by the incorporation of new body techniques and the adoption of an ethos of discipline and self-transformation. Fitness thus appears as an ambivalent space: simultaneously a site of reproduction of social hierarchies and negotiation of established norms, particularly gender norms, within a neoliberal context of subject self-entrepreneurship.; Le fitness s’impose aujourd'hui comme un phénomène global, porté par l’expansion rapide des salles de sport et par des discours valorisant l’activité physique et sportive (APS) comme instrument de production de soi. Cette recherche interroge la construction sociale de la « personne fitness » à travers l'apprentissage de techniques du corps et l’entrelacement des rapports de classe sociale, de genre et de race. Comment la personne fitness se construit-t-elle en tant que catégorie sociale et subjective dans les salles de sport de franchises transnationales au Brésil et en France ? À la croisée de l'anthropologie et de la sociologie, cette ethnographie comparative repose sur près de sept ans non continus d’études de terrain (2017-2024) dans deux franchises transnationales : Body Fit (au Brésil) et Perfect Body (en France) – combinant observation participante, 50 entretiens semi-structurés et 873 observations quantitatives. Les résultats indiquent que la personne fitness émerge comme figure sociale. À la fois globalisée et localement située, elle est caractérisée par l'incorporation de nouvelles techniques du corps et par l'adoption d'un ethos de discipline et d'auto-transformation. Le fitness apparaît ainsi comme un espace ambivalent : à la fois lieu de reproduction des hiérarchies sociales et de négociation des normes établies, notamment de genre, dans un contexte néolibéral d'auto-entrepreneuriat du sujet.; El fitness se impone hoy como un fenómeno global, impulsado por la rápida expansión de los gimnasios y por discursos que valorizan la actividad física y deportiva (AFD) como instrumento de producción de sí mismo. Esta investigación interroga la construcción social de la "persona fitness" a través del aprendizaje de técnicas del cuerpo y el entrelazamiento de las relaciones de clase social, género y raza. ¿Cómo se construye la persona fitness como categoría social y subjetiva en los gimnasios de franquicias transnacionales en Brasil y Francia? En el cruce de la antropología y la sociología, esta etnografía comparativa se basa en casi siete años no continuos de investigación de campo (2017-2024) en dos franquicias transnacionales: Body Fit (en Brasil) y Perfect Body (en Francia) – combinando observación participante, 50 entrevistas semiestructuradas y 873 observaciones cuantitativas. Los resultados indican que la persona fitness emerge como figura social. A la vez globalizada y localmente situada, se caracteriza por la incorporación de nuevas técnicas del cuerpo y por la adopción de un ethos de disciplina y autotransformación. El fitness aparece así como un espacio ambivalente: simultáneamente lugar de reproducción de las jerarquías sociales y de negociación de las normas establecidas, especialmente de género, en un contexto neoliberal de auto-emprendimiento del sujeto. Universidade Federal da Bahia / Université Rennes 2 Tese

2025-11-28T00:00:00Z Ribeiro, Thainá Soares https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43859 2026-01-23T15:52:01Z 2025-11-10T00:00:00Z

Círculos de mulheres no Brasil: frestas e vazamentos dos sagrados femininos Ribeiro, Thainá Soares Tavares, Fátima Regina Gomes This work presents the agencements (enactments/activations) of Women's Circles in Brazil, a non-institutional movement of feminine spirituality organized by women and for women, predominantly cisgender, white, and middle-class. However, the research, conducted in Salvador and its metropolitan area, identified a more diverse movement, with the presence and protagonism of Black women and openness to the participation of trans women. To understand these dynamics, I carried out fieldwork in Circles across different formats of gatherings: online, in-person, and I monitored several profiles on Instagram. In total, there were eight in-person Circles in Salvador and the metropolitan area, five online Circles, the monitoring of twenty Instagram profiles, and in-depth conversations with seven women. In these spaces, the “sacred feminines” from various traditions overflow, and the feminine principle acts as the guiding force of life, experienced as a “wild and intuitive” quality. In this way of exercising spirituality, the body is the path and the manifestation of the sacred, enacted through rituals and practices such as “natural and autonomous gynecology.” The body’s processes—the fertile period, menstruation, etc.—are enacted based on the cycles of the moon, the seasons, and the circadian rhythm. Simultaneously, these cycles of life enact the cycles of the body. Based on this observation, I developed the category "cyclic and permeable bodies," as for these women, the body’s cycles and the cyclicity of life are the result of interwoven agencements (enactments). Due to this being an embodied spirituality, I utilize the analytical category "feminine sacred" in articulation with the native category "sacred feminine," to understand the multiple arrangements of the body-psyche-community relationship—transcendent and immanent—within these experiences. Although some Women’s Circles have been absorbed by the alternative therapy market, there are politicized Circles that establish themselves as an inspiration, offering an alternative way of living. In these spaces, bodies (with or without a uterus), connected to the cycles—expansion (spring, summer, day, waxing and full moons) and contraction/recollection (autumn, winter, night, waning and new moons)—establish a rhythm of life that counters capitalism. Capitalism, in turn, demands continuous expansion that results in the destruction of ecosystems. By valuing intuition and the "knowledge embodied in life's cycles," these Circles offer fissures through which other forms of inhabiting and knowing the world can emerge, distinct from those imposed by the hegemonic mode. Universidade Federal da Bahia Tese

2025-11-10T00:00:00Z Lopes, Emmanuel Bastos de Magalhães https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43724 2025-12-19T11:58:20Z 2025-08-11T00:00:00Z

Patrimonialização de terreiros de candomblé na Bahia: agentes, agências e mediadoras. Lopes, Emmanuel Bastos de Magalhães Caroso, Carlos Alberto Soares This dissertation is part of an ethnographic research of the government, documents and bureaucracy studying public policies for the heritagization of Candomblé terreiros in Bahia. The first terreiro was declared a heritage site in the 1980ties, however, after the new Federal Constitution of 1988 the landmarks of heritage recognition changed and some cultural assets linked to ethnic groups and minorities began to be recognized, especially in their immaterial dimensions. Beginning in 2003, new sociopolitical conditions for the recognition and appreciation of cultural heritage emerged, with successive listings of some “mother-houses”, federal and state agencies are undergoing broad instrumental and technical reforms; assets, now cultural references, represent the immanence of the practices of once-neglected groups. At this stage, anthropology professionals are increasingly working in government careers, sometimes in fragile work situations; their technical work operates traditionally with ethnographic resources and methods, but they face new challenges: the operationalization of public policy based on a truncated bureaucracy cluttered with documents, forms, protocols, and systems. These are simultaneously products of labor and devices endowed with agency, sensoriality, and acting through the power of humans and non-humans. Therefore, we investigate, based on Bruno Latour's actor-network theory, the legal and bureaucratic mediations in heritagization processes. Through a bibliographic and documentary review, we analyze the listing of Nagô houses, which we compare with other research and the demands that Bantu traditions must reaffirm their uniqueness not through purity, but through a blend that dispenses with rethinking the criteria for recognition and protection. It is understood the role of institutional actions, such as the GTIT - Interdepartmental Group for the Preservation of Terreiros - within the scope of IPHAN (National Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage), and their impacts on the heritage field of terreiros with a view to producing bureaucratic efficiencies. The activities of other projects, such as Itoju, Pergunte a Onilé, and Milonga, are also reconsidered. Strategic actions by terreiro groups aim to pressure and, at the same time, collaborate with the government to overcome the structural racism that persists in the underrepresentation of cultural assets of African origin. Finally, we observe a treatment of documents, papers and bureaucratic systems that is not completely detached from coloniality, despite the efforts of both the academic discipline and part of the state's normative composition, which become agents, together with other beings and entities of Afro-Brazilian cosmology, in the task of heritage recognition. Universidade Federal da Bahia Tese

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