Moura, Xan DI Alexandria; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8075-0148; https://lattes.cnpq.br/0913871124949385
Resumo:
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.
