PROA: Revista de Antropologia e Arte
type: channel
description: Escopo: A Proa: Revista de Antropologia e Arte é uma publicação semestral virtual, de acesso irrestrito, vinculada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social do Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (PPGAS – IFCH – Unicamp). Sua primeira edição foi publicada em agosto de 2009. Qualis: A3 Área do conhecimento: Ciências Sociais Ano de fundação: 2008 E-ISSN: 2175-6015 Título abreviado: PROA: Rev. de Antrop. e Arte E-mail: contato@revistaproa.com.br Unidade: IFCH Editor responsável: Christiano Key Tambascia Prefixo DOI: 10.20396
publisher: Universidade Estadual de Campinas
language: pt-BR
publication name: PROA: Revista de Antropologia e Arte
issn: 2175-6015
copyright: O periódico Proa: Revista de Antropologia e Arte utiliza a licença do Creative Commons (CC), preservando assim, a integridade dos artigos em ambiente de acesso aberto.
items: Letter to everyone
items: My drawing has changed
items: Presentation
items: Lights Out
items: The Love Saga in pass-classing life narratives:
items: Quantitative data on the perspective of camgirl-researchers
items: Fátima Medeiros's Putagraphy
items: The construction of aesthetic language in camgirl performances and the spectator’s desire
items: Joyful, the End of the World
items: Let's go to the bar for a drink
items: Coalition-in-process
items: Puta Pantheon
items: In scene with a dominatrix
items: What cannot be elaborated from the female body returns in the form of prostitution?
items: Sounds and noises of a black future
items: Drawing the comic book markets in Porto Alegre
items: The survival spectacle of Sofía Devenir
items: Community Flour House of Lagoa de Fora, São Raimundo Nonato, Piauí
items: Objectifying a sound world
items: "Aniversário Vó Natália"
items: Between dirty work, exploitation and exclusion
items: (Un)archiving other lives
items: The oddments of mardina
items: Art Exhibition at MASP, Lia D Castro
items: “Why do I drag up”
items: Women’s encounter
items: Turn, Pombagira, Turn!
items: A night in paradise
items: Neon Lights, Genre Mix and Stage Pole
items: Knowledge from the taboal

Letter to everyone
type: item
description: The present text, written in epistolary form, is a set of small letters to my friends whose memories resurfaced while reading the exhibition catalog. Through them, I wish to reflect on how worlds encounter other worlds that are connected, even when we do not move through space.
subject: Relatos e Experiências
  topic: section
subject: Letters
  topic: keywords
subject: Édouard Glissant
  topic: keywords
subject: Travel
  topic: keywords
subject: Anthopology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Denise Ferreira da Costa Cruz
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Denise Ferreira da Costa Cruz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-03-12
publication date: 2026-03-12
starting page: e026002
ending page: e026002
doi: 10.20396/proa.v16i00.20913

My drawing has changed
type: item
description: This essay addresses the practice of drawing in the field, highlighting the Carlos Marighella Occupation (OCM) in Fortaleza, Ceará, through the memories of the occupants, examining their organization and political mobilization during the COVID-19 pandemic. I use ethnographic design to portray the experiences of the occupation’s residents, highlighting the changes, tensions, and perspectives throughout the fieldwork. The results highlight fundamental issues for anthropology, emphasizing the need for deep immersion in the field to understand the use of graphic techniques. In addition to not being afraid to use other writing styles, we must overcome the frustration of the process until we can see the best ways to learn about doing research. Just as in the city, everything is constantly changing, and our ethnographic gaze must keep pace with these changes.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Ethnographic drawing
  topic: keywords
subject: Visual anthropology
  topic: keywords
subject: Graphic techniques
  topic: keywords
subject: Research
  topic: keywords
subject: Covid-19
  topic: keywords
subject: Visual anthropology
  topic: disciplines
subject: Urban anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Francisca Raquel de Oliveira Temoteo
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Francisca Raquel de Oliveira Temoteo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-02-24
publication date: 2026-02-24
starting page: e026001
ending page: e026001
doi: 10.20396/proa.v16i00.19231

Presentation
type: item
description: Addressing points of contact between anthropology, art, politics, and sex work, this dossier offers a plural and polyphonic overview of texts focused on one of the most relevant themes in contemporary Brazilian public debate. It is part of a tradition inaugurated by Gabriela Leite and Lourdes Barreto in the late 1970s, which has since been carried forward by many sex workers—anonymous and well-known alike—at both national and international levels.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Sex work
  topic: keywords
subject: Sex Workers’ Movements
  topic: keywords
subject: Art
  topic: keywords
subject: Politics
  topic: keywords
subject: Dossier
  topic: keywords
subject: Anthopology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Natânia Lopes
creator: Gabriel Morais Medeiros
creator: Amara Moira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Natânia Lopes, Gabriel Morais Medeiros, Amara Moira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-02-19
publication date: 2026-02-19
starting page: e025031
ending page: e025031
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.21119

Lights Out
type: item
description: The year 2025 was especially significant for Proa: Journal of Anthropology and Art, and we are delighted to close another cycle. Together with our authors, readers, and other collaborators, we experienced a year full of activities, thought-provoking publications, and, of course, rich dialogue between Anthropology and a wide range of artistic expressions. Following the continuous publication model, the journal released contributions addressing diverse themes, formats, and experiences, with special emphasis on the dossier “Sex Work and Sex Workers’ Movements: Art and Politics,” which brilliantly forms part of Volume 15.
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
subject: Editorial
  topic: keywords
subject: Proa
  topic: keywords
subject: Anthropolgy
  topic: keywords
subject: Art
  topic: keywords
subject: Anthopology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Júlia Vargas
creator: Mariana de Carvalho Ilheo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Júlia Vargas, Mariana de Carvalho Ilheo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-02-19
publication date: 2026-02-19
starting page: e025032
ending page: e025032
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.21115

The Love Saga in pass-classing life narratives:
type: item
description: The article aims to analyze how the notion of Love Saga is identified in A Princesa: a história do travesti brasileiro na Europa escrita por um dos líderes da Brigada Vermelha (1995). To achieve this goal, an interpretative work methodology is adopted in which there is a constant dialogue between the corpus and the concepts of theoretical references coming from Semiolinguistics, as the main discipline, and other fields of knowledge, such as Gender Studies and Queer Studies, through of a focused interdisciplinarity. Based on the epistemological production of transfeminist authors, it was found that transphobia, performativity within the framework of a binary normativity, the feeling of jealousy, suicidal ideations and dilemmas financial resources not only affect the Love Saga of Fernanda, a Brazilian transsexual sex worker, but they also insist on negatively impacting the love lives of several sex and gender dissident people today. In this way, the life narrative of the person-who-is-narrated, despite being singular, opens up to the impossibility of isolating their memories at an individual level, demonstrating that the experiences are potentially collective.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Love Saga
  topic: keywords
subject: Life Narrative
  topic: keywords
subject: Pass-classing
  topic: keywords
subject: Prostitution
  topic: keywords
subject: Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque
  topic: keywords
subject: Literature
  topic: disciplines
subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Gyovanna Bardini
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Gyovanna Bardini https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-02-12
publication date: 2026-02-12
starting page: e025030
ending page: e025030
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20132

Quantitative data on the perspective of camgirl-researchers
type: item
description: Based on our experience as camgirls-researchers and our lived experience and coexistence within webcam model communities, a form was developed in order to address gaps related to brazilian webcamming. With the objective of better understanding the mental health demands of our population, we constructed a set of questions aimed at obtaining both baseline data (age, race, gender, sexuality, parenthood, and income) and specific data on mental health demands within this class of professionals. A total of 127 responses were collected. The results draw attention to several points, especially by demonstrating both a high proportion of LGBTQIA+ individuals (77.2%) and significant challenges in the fields of mental health and parenthood. We highlight the relationship between mental health issues among webcamming professionals, which identified the most frequent complaints as “States of anxiety and fear” (75.6%), “Mood states” (58.3%), “Self-knowledge and self-development” (54.3%), and “Self-esteem” (53.4%). As less frequent aspects, the data indicate “Gender-based violence” (6.3%) and “Rights violations” (7.9%). From a critical perspective, we analyze this phenomenon through discussions on the platformization of labor, neoliberal entrepreneurial discourse, and the putafeminist perspective on sex work.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Webcamming
  topic: keywords
subject: Sex work
  topic: keywords
subject: Mental health
  topic: keywords
subject: Plataformization of labour
  topic: keywords
subject: Putafeminism
  topic: keywords
subject: Psychology
  topic: disciplines
subject: Gender Studies
  topic: disciplines
subject: Applied Social Sciences
  topic: disciplines
creator: Carolina Carvalho Dias
creator: Laura Leão Foine
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Carolina Carvalho Dias, Laura Leão Foine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-01-19
publication date: 2026-01-19
starting page: e025029
ending page: e025029
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20312

Fátima Medeiros's Putagraphy
type: item
description: Based on two theoretical and methodological assumptions of the Materialist Discourse Analysis, this article analyzes the book Puta História (2024), by Fátima Medeiros, understanding it as a putagrafia (Ribeiro, 2020) in the format of an autobiographical romance that appears in discourse as a memory produced on the margins and despite the stigma. Starting from the notion of place of enunciation (Zoppi-Fontana, 2002), we investigate the discursive mechanisms for the author, historical militant of the category, projects different feixes de formações imaginárias e efeitos-leitores, diriginó-se both to other sex workers and to an external public. Articulating the concept of putagrafias (Ribeiro, 2020), understood as “a new place to enunciate about a prostituição in which its voice, by means of writing, can be ressoar and make echo” (Ribeiro, 2020, p. 17), we show how the jocosidade in Medeiros’ work operates as a refração da experiência (Lopes, 2023b), I decompose and reconfigure dinners experienced with clients through writing. The analysis demonstrates that the work functions as a subjective gesture and an aesthetic and political intervention that transforms marginalized life into a literary narrative, allowing the author to singularize her trajectory and dispute representations. Furthermore, we show how autobiographical writing acts as self-care and freedom practice (Parteka, 2016), creating symbolic conditions for the realization of intersubjective mourning work (Dunker, 2023). We conclude that the work promotes a positive self-representation of sexual workers, constitutes an artefact of cultural memory and operates as a device of resonance and ressignificance, transforming personal narrative into a powerful object of symbolic and political dispute.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Culture
  topic: keywords
subject: Aestethics
  topic: keywords
subject: Putagraphies
  topic: keywords
subject: Place of enunciation
  topic: keywords
subject: Discourse analysis
  topic: keywords
subject: Literature
  topic: disciplines
subject: Anthopology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Maria Fernanda Moreira
creator: Mónica Graciela Zoppi-Fontana
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Maria Fernanda Moreira, Mónica Graciela Zoppi-Fontana https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-24
publication date: 2025-12-24
starting page: e025028
ending page: e025028
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20104

The construction of aesthetic language in camgirl performances and the spectator’s desire
type: item
description: The article looks at the construction of aesthetic language in camgirl performances, using concepts from psychoanalysis and aesthetic anthropology. It analyses how male fantasies, influenced by the Oedipus Complex (Freud), shape interactions with camgirls, seen as sexualized figures who allow the expression of a freer libido. Camgirl performances explore the balance between the beautiful and the sublime, creating tension and desire through elements such as suspense, lighting and costumes. In addition, they construct performative identities adapted to the demands of the market and the preferences of spectators, using fantasy characters and names. These performances are presented as artistic expressions that challenge social norms and explore male desire, revealing an aesthetic game that balances communication and concealment, keeping excitement and idealization at the heart of the experience.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Camgirl
  topic: keywords
subject: Psychoanalysis
  topic: keywords
subject: Fantasy
  topic: keywords
subject: Desire
  topic: keywords
subject: Aestethics
  topic: keywords
subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
subject: Psychoanalysis
  topic: disciplines
creator: Caio Ferreira Romano
creator: Ana Carolina Fiori
creator: Natânia Lopes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Caio Ferreira Romano, Ana Carolina Fiori, Natânia Lopes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-14
publication date: 2025-12-14
starting page: e025027
ending page: e025027
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20302

Joyful, the End of the World
type: item
description: In what follows, I briefly outline an overview of artistic representations of prostitution during the first phase of Brazilian Modernism (1922–1930). I select this period as a point of departure because I discern, within avant-garde modernity, a certain shift in the discourses surrounding prostitution – particularly when compared to the pathologizing and criminological imaginaries that shaped discussions of sexual commerce at the end of the nineteenth century and throughout the Brazilian Belle Époque. Formally (and therefore methodologically) this text operates on the threshold between the encyclopedia entry and the aphorism. This methodological choice seeks, however illusorily, to compensate for an irremediable absence within such epistemes. What remains to be constructed – and this would require a work of considerable scope – is a history of prostitution in Brazilian visual and literary arts.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Prostitution
  topic: keywords
subject: Literature
  topic: keywords
subject: Artistic field
  topic: keywords
subject: Modernism
  topic: keywords
subject: Brazil
  topic: keywords
subject: Literature
  topic: disciplines
subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Gabriel Morais Medeiros
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Gabriel Morais Medeiros https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-10
publication date: 2025-12-10
starting page: e025026
ending page: e025026
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20308

Let's go to the bar for a drink
type: item
description: During the 20th century, the city of Itabaiana, located in the interior of Paraíba, developed an intense trade with the exploitation of female bodies, which, in most cases, were considered commodities and objects of pleasure. These women, who lived in extreme poverty or were seduced and abandoned by corruptors, saw prostitution as the only means of survival in a patriarchal, sexist and exclusionary society. A century later, Itabaiana is still considered a city suitable for male pleasures, since there are still “barbarés” – cabarets disguised as bars – where women turn to prostitution as a means of survival. Instead of accepting to be treated as objects, they make profits and try to obtain social and economic autonomy. This work, using the methodology of oral history and ethnography, tells the life stories of these professionals. Through listening and observation, we will address the sociability they face, including their experiences in combating gender-based violence that still exists in society.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Prostitution
  topic: keywords
subject: Experiences
  topic: keywords
subject: Sociability
  topic: keywords
subject: Itabaiana-PB
  topic: keywords
subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Flaviano Batista Ferreira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Flaviano Batista Ferreira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-10
publication date: 2025-12-10
starting page: e025025
ending page: e025025
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20307

Coalition-in-process
type: item
description: In this essay we share the processes of collaboration in visual arts and memory through which we have engaged with the Coletivo Puta Davida. Among the potentialities and contours of the alliances, we highlight the importance of critical reflection and an interrogative attitude, from the positionalities of the world we inhabit, as a key element for consolidating coalition strategies. We understand that the alliance with the movement must be woven relationally between knowledge and lived experience. Efforts must converge to enhance the vocalities of the activism of the prostitutes’ movement. Through artistic devices that reach and circulate in different social spaces, we have developed, in partnership with members of the Coletivo, activations of the documentary content of the Arquivo Davida that can contribute to breaking down stigma, building empathy, and making progress in the macro and micro-political fields.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Coalition
  topic: keywords
subject: Prostitution
  topic: keywords
subject: Memory
  topic: keywords
subject: Activism
  topic: keywords
subject: Visual arts
  topic: keywords
subject: Visual arts
  topic: disciplines
subject: Social Sciences
  topic: disciplines
creator: Angie Donini
creator: Amanda Calabria
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Angie Donini, Amanda Calabria https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-23
publication date: 2025-11-23
starting page: e025023
ending page: e025023
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20309

Puta Pantheon
type: item
description: The purpose of this series of drawings is to celebrate the memory of powerful and influential women who were once perceived as whores for their sexual conduct. Some did so of their own free will and defended the dignity of this practice, others did so under brutal violence and did everything they could to free themselves from a humiliating condition. Regardless of the moral evaluation we have of this aspect of their lives, they all left an indelible mark on history. By celebrating the memory of their whores, I hope to contribute to the destigmatization of these women and others that readers will certainly be able to add to this gallery. Often the stigma of prostituted women and ignorance about their real experience causes more harm than the eventual violations suffered while performing sex work. While sexist historiography sees them as a lost women, they have proven that a whore can become many things: movie actress, marchioness, queen, interpreter, military strategist, vice president, philanthropist, saint or simply a whore, with great pride and no hypocrisy.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Prostitution
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin America
  topic: keywords
subject: Body
  topic: keywords
subject: Historiography
  topic: keywords
subject: Feminism
  topic: keywords
subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Marcio Zamboni
creator: Natânia Lopes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Marcio Zamboni, Natânia Lopes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-10
publication date: 2025-11-10
starting page: e025022
ending page: e025022
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20317

In scene with a dominatrix
type: item
description: This paper aims to shed light on the sexual culture currently known as BDSM, presenting its main characteristics, ethical codes, and the importance of aesthetics in erotic play and its public image. It also explores BDSM in its intersection with sex work, a practice that takes on distinct contours, as demonstrated in the ethnographic account of a professional dominatrix. For this reflection, bibliographic references are used in dialogue with field findings. At the end of the text, a photographic essay with field images is presented, visually complementing the proposed analysis. The paper concludes by emphasizing the importance of new ethics and aesthetics for the development of new sexual politics.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: BDSM
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethics
  topic: keywords
subject: Aestethics
  topic: keywords
subject: Dominatrix
  topic: keywords
subject: Fieldwork photography
  topic: keywords
subject: Sociology
  topic: disciplines
subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Jorge Leite Junior
creator: Paula Nogueira Batista
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jorge Leite Junior, Paula Nogueira Batista https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-01
publication date: 2025-11-01
starting page: e025021
ending page: e025021
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20377

What cannot be elaborated from the female body returns in the form of prostitution?
type: item
description: The article analyzes female prostitution from a psychoanalytic, historical and social perspective, articulating gender, sexuality and stigma. The research, linked to a PhD study currently underway at USP, is based on interviews with seven cis and trans women who work in prostitution, discussing their narratives in light of prostitute feminist authors, such as Monique Prada and Melissa Gira Grant, and Freudian and contemporary psychoanalytic frameworks. The study highlights how society constructs the division of femininity, reducing women to the binary of virgin/whore, and how the female body, historically controlled by patriarchy and Christian morality, returns as a subversive act through prostitution. The stigmatization of this activity reveals the social difficulty of elaborating female sexuality, which is often repressed and transformed into an object of symbolic and concrete violence. The interviewees’ statements show contradictions between desire, morality, and power, exposing the role of prostitution as a space of resistance and paradoxical support for the institution of marriage. It is concluded that discussing prostitution is essential to deconstruct stigmas, rethink social values regarding women’s sexuality, and highlight the return of the repressed in society, as “what cannot be elaborated in the female body returns in the form of prostitution.”
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Prostitution
  topic: keywords
subject: Psychoanalysis
  topic: keywords
subject: Gender
  topic: keywords
subject: Female sexuality
  topic: keywords
subject: Whore-feminism
  topic: keywords
subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Christiana Paiva de Oliveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Christiana Paiva de Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-29
publication date: 2025-09-29
starting page: e025020
ending page: e025020
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20020

Sounds and noises of a black future
type: item
description: This article seeks to discuss how the centrality of the gaze in Western culture is manifested in audiovisual media through a hierarchy headed by the image that makes various types of sound a passive complement. The identification of this hierarchy occurs through the visual and sonic discussion presented in the film Space is the Place (1974), where the boundaries between music and noise are broken, as well as a questioning of the centrality of the image in audiovisual narrative.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Cinema
  topic: keywords
subject: Afrofuturism
  topic: keywords
subject: Musicking
  topic: keywords
subject: Image
  topic: keywords
subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Vinícius Teles Córdova
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Vinícius Teles Córdova https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-20
publication date: 2025-09-20
starting page: e025019
ending page: e025019
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.18374

Drawing the comic book markets in Porto Alegre
type: item
description: The visual essay explores the modes of circulation of comic books in Porto Alegre, intertwining methodological approaches and theoretical discussions that focus on two artistic-mercantile circuits: the editorial-traditional and the independent. 1. The work traces the flows of comic books throughout the city, mapping routes that originate from and pass through secondhand bookstores, comic shops, and fairs - spaces that enable interactions among comic artists, editors, shopkeepers, readers, and consumers. 2. In addition to identifying the networks of humans and non-humans that agence different circuits of mercantile exchange, the essay highlights the role of drawing as a central practice in the ethnographic endeavor. Drawing is mobilized both as a catalyst for interactions during the construction of the empirical field and as a tool for registering and analyzing, organizing and presenting the anthropological reflections derived from the research. Thus, integrated into the ethnographic process, drawing functions as both a descriptive and analytical element. In this ethnographic and visual production, it contributes to demonstrating that, although markets are often perceived as spaces devoid of social ties, the scenes and commercial flows rendered through drawing reveal the interconnections between bonding, art, and market.
subject: Ensaios (Áudio) Visuais
  topic: section
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethnography
  topic: keywords
subject: Drawing
  topic: keywords
subject: Agency
  topic: keywords
subject: Markets
  topic: keywords
subject: Antropology
  topic: disciplines
subject: Visual anthropology
  topic: disciplines
subject: Antropology of art
  topic: disciplines
creator: Victória Perfeito
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Victória Perfeito https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-02
publication date: 2025-09-02
starting page: e025017
ending page: e025017
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20276

The survival spectacle of Sofía Devenir
type: item
description: Des-ubicá — memorias de una dinosauria travesti sudaka (Des-ubicá — Memories of a South American Travesti Dinosaur), a title shaped by the typical Chilean pronunciation of the word desubicada (meaning out of place or disoriented), was an independent publication and zine-collage by Sofía Devenir, released by Editorial Gata Kuir in 2018. Sofía is a historian, artist, sex worker, and composer, and a member of the travesti band Las Indetectables, alongside Noelia Shalá and Divina Tota.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Communication
  topic: keywords
subject: Literature
  topic: keywords
subject: Art
  topic: keywords
subject: Sexuality
  topic: keywords
subject: Gender
  topic: keywords
subject: ´Communication
  topic: disciplines
subject: Literature
  topic: disciplines
subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Bárbara Piazza dos Reis
creator: Priscila Lira de Oliveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Bárbara Piazza dos Reis, Priscila Lira de Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-21
publication date: 2025-07-21
starting page: e025015
ending page: e025015
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20134

Community Flour House of Lagoa de Fora, São Raimundo Nonato, Piauí
type: item
description: Between the solidity of materialities and the fluidity of daily life, we present this visual essay that intertwines architecture and human dynamics within a space of sociability and subsistence: the community flour house of Lagoa de Fora, a village in the rural area of São Raimundo Nonato, in the southeastern region of Piauí.
subject: Ensaios (Áudio) Visuais
  topic: section
subject: Community flour houses
  topic: keywords
subject: São Raimundo Nonato
  topic: keywords
subject: Rural traditions
  topic: keywords
subject: Archaeology of architecture
  topic: keywords
subject: Manioc flour
  topic: keywords
subject: Archaeology
  topic: disciplines
subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Nailton Negreiros Ribeiro
creator: Vanessa Linke
creator: Henrique Alcântara e Silva
creator: Edna Paula de Negreiros Paes
creator: Samara Sandra de Negreiros Paes
creator: Tamires Alves de Negreiros
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Nailton Negreiros Ribeiro, Vanessa Linke, Henrique Alcântara e Silva , Edna Paula de Negreiros Paes, Samara Sandra de Negreiros Paes, Tamires Alves de Negreiros https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-10
publication date: 2025-12-10
starting page: e025024
ending page: e025024
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20303

Objectifying a sound world
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description: This article systematizes and updates the main reflections of my doctoral thesis on music production processes, in the context of recording studios. In view of the institutional configuration of the Brazilian phonographic field, taking into account Anglo-American matrices, I analyze those environments, the professional categories that work in them and the equipment in circulation, as elements of an objectifying ritual of this sound world. I use as methodological resources bibliographic and documentary sources, as well as interviews and multi-situated ethnographic experience, conducted especially between 2017 and 2018, among the middle classes of the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, southeastern Brazil. By problematizing the topics mentioned within the theoretical framework of sound studies, in dialogue with an anthropology of objects and ritual, I present a scene from the Space Blues studio to argue that the phenomenon in question spreads and materializes in networks that intertwine, gaining specific local contours. I expect thus to bring subsidies to the material culture, labor relations and ethnomusicology fields, among others disciplines.
subject: Artigos
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subject: Music production
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subject: Ritual
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subject: Sound studies
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subject: Recording studios
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subject: Phonography
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subject: Anthropology
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subject: Music
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creator: Daniel Wainer
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Daniel Ferreira Wainer https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-17
publication date: 2025-06-17
starting page: e025014
ending page: e025014
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20274

"Aniversário Vó Natália"
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description: I got off a bus in Belo Horizonte on a cold July morning in 2024, stepping onto a land I had only set foot on a few times in my life, back when my great-grandmother Natália was still alive. Returning to the home of relatives is a movement driven by longing and the search for our origins — a process of "getting to know the family" that intertwines with my PhD research in Social Anthropology. During this visit, I was surprised by the discovery of a two-part DVD titled "Aniversário Vó Natália" (Grandma Natália’s Birthday), which portrays in detail the celebration of my great-grandmother’s 90th birthday. It was in 2004, and my family had ventured for the second time by car from São Paulo to Minas Gerais. Like a survival of the past and a glimpse into our future, this footage — which I didn’t even remember existed — was filmed with a camera rented by the family and passed from hand to hand, a collective gesture to preserve that day in memory.
subject: Ensaios (Áudio) Visuais
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subject: House
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subject: Camera
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subject: Family
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subject: Backyard
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subject: Memory
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subject: Visual anthropology
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creator: Tayná Almeida
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Tayná Almeida https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-17
publication date: 2025-06-17
starting page: e025013
ending page: e025013
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20243

Between dirty work, exploitation and exclusion
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description: Prostitution is widely framed as ‘dirty work’ in discussions about the labor market, a concept introduced by Everett Hughes to describe occupations that, although diverse and essential, carry social stigma. These activities range from jobs considered arduous or hazardous to those marked by connotations of immorality or crime, such as prostitution. This essay analyzes, through a bibliographic review, the prostitution of transgender and travesti women, investigating how moral values influence the lack of regulation of this activity and perpetuate the exploitation of marginalized minorities. The discussion aims to reflect on the role of morality in sustaining the status quo and evaluate to what extent regulation can contribute to the dignity of these workers, addressing historical stigmas and inequalities.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Sex work
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subject: Transgender women
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subject: Informality
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subject: Morality
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subject: Inequalities
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subject: Sociology
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subject: Anthropology
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creator: Igor Souza de Abreu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Igor Souza de Abreu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-17
publication date: 2025-06-17
starting page: e025012
ending page: e025012
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20195

(Un)archiving other lives
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description: This text is a historical analysis of the relationship between prostitution and the (in)disciplining of bodies and spaces in the urban configuration of the city of Fortaleza, capital of the state of Ceará, between the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th one. Throughout these decades, we’ve had emerged discourses and practices that made meretricious behaviour a problem for the urban, social, and moral organisation of the city, which also came to be described, thought about, and disputed from the point of view of sexual morality. This was a period in which attempts were made to regulate and control existences and behaviours considered inappropriate and deviant in relation to the norms in force and a model of what a civilised and modern society would be. The individuals and groups marked and stigmatised with the images and profiles of these ‘deviants’ were the objects of the attempts at repression and segregation that were being organised and institutionalised. It was in this context that the prostitute appeared as one of the figures in this gallery of social outcasts and prostitution began to be talked about and defined as a threat and a danger to the ‘good customs’ of the capital of Ceará.
subject: Dossiê
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subject: Prostitution
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subject: History of sexuality
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subject: Fortaleza city
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subject: History
  topic: disciplines
subject: Anthropology
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creator: José Humberto Carneiro Pinheiro Filho
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 José Humberto Carneiro Pinheiro Filho https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-17
publication date: 2025-06-17
starting page: e025011
ending page: e025011
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20147

The oddments of mardina
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description: “Nossas Senhoras” is a book of oddments that narrates some of the journeys of Mardina, a character who is the result of the history of three generations of seamstresses, wanderers, and storytellers. The book was produced during the Covid-19 pandemic and is one of the material outcomes of the autoethnographic process entitled “entre o grito e o respiro, costuro em minhas mãos rotas de fuga: aprendizagens em antropologia" ("between the scream and the breath, I stitch escape routes in my hands: learnings in anthropology") (Guimarães, 2022), which explores sexual violence, racism, racialization, and training in Anthropology. The book’s playful nature echoes the possibilities of multiple simultaneous narratives, where violence is not the final story for women. It expresses memories from Mardina’s path, the learnings she experienced with other women, and the slow insistence of the exhausting acts of trying.
subject: Galeria
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subject: Textile art
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subject: Autoethnography
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subject: Descolonial Feminist
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subject: Visual Antropology
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subject: Mariza Corrêa Award
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subject: Visual anthropology
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subject: Feminist Theory
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subject: Decolonial Studies
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subject: Textile Art
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subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Isabella Alves Guimarães
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Isabella Alves Guimarães https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-27
publication date: 2025-05-27
starting page: e025009
ending page: e025009
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20108

Art Exhibition at MASP, Lia D Castro
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description: Report on the visit to the exhibition Lia D Castro: everywhere and nowhere, at Museu de Arte de São Paulo. The text provides information about the characteristics of the artist's creative process as well as the viewer's refletions on the experiencie.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Contemporary Art
  topic: keywords
subject: Experience
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subject: Exhibition
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subject: visual arts
  topic: disciplines
subject: Antropology
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subject: psychoanalysis
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creator: Daniela Mucinic
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Daniela Mucinic https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-27
publication date: 2025-05-27
starting page: e025010
ending page: e025010
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20293

“Why do I drag up”
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description: This article analyzes the meanings attributed to the practice of drag queen performance, based on the results of the research Mapping Transformist Art in the Federal District and Surroundings, conducted between 2021 and 2022. Through the prosopography of forty transformist artists from the metropolitan area of the Federal District, we examine their motivations and the relationships they establish between their artistic practices and their sexual identities. The study reveals how bodily expressions, often ridiculed during childhood and adolescence, are re-signified and transformed into forms of aesthetic consecration, made possible by the process of “autonomization” and “ratification” of transformism. We demonstrate how various social agents contribute to legitimizing transformist art as a specific language of a social group.
subject: Artigos
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subject: Drag queen
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subject: Transformism
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subject: Autonomization
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subject: Field
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subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Rodolfo Godoi
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rodolfo Godoi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-04-05
publication date: 2025-04-05
starting page: e025001
ending page: e025001
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.19996

Women’s encounter
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description: I met with Coraly Zahonero, actress, member of the Comédie Française, on a rainy autumn day in Paris. Coraly wrote, directed and performed in 2016 a show about Grisélidis Réal. Due to the warm rain, which didn't make us want to go outside, we stayed talking for more than two hours in his 20 square meter dressing room, furnished with charm and equipped with practically everything: a bed, two sofas, table, dressing table, and tea and coffee service. The actors of the Comédie française spend their days in their dressing rooms working on their characters and resting between rehearsals. At night they perform in one of the institution's three theaters, and Coraly's dressing room is at the main headquarters, the Salle Richelieu, founded in 1680 in the heart of the Palais-Royal, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The long conversation now costs me double work to listen to and edit the interview amidst our also long parentheses and digressions: we have been friends for over 30 years, she is my daughter's godmother and I am her godmother. I participated closely in the process of creating the show about Grisélidis Réal, whose poster I could see above his head, on the central wall of the dressing room. Coraly could actually be confused with Grisélidis, which is difficult to know at first, such is the physical resemblance and her admirable work of composition: the black eyes outlined in a Barbara style, her long hair, the bangs, the huge earrings.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Prostitution
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subject: Grisélidis Réal
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subject: Sex work
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subject: Poetry
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subject: Activism
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subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Tânia da Costa
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Tânia da Costa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-04-06
publication date: 2025-04-06
starting page: e025003
ending page: e025003
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20109

Turn, Pombagira, Turn!
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description: Embodying Spirit, Female Exu, Lady of the Crossroads. Messenger, Daughter of Disorder, Queen of Laughter. Loving, Loyal Friend, Gatekeeper Sentinel. Serpent-Woman, Divine Lilith, Beautiful Lady, Red Rose, Poisonous Snake. Advocate. I bow my head and ask permission to present this work. Photographs of Queen Pombagira Sete Encruzilhadas in the crown of Pai Valdo de Iansã, from the Cabana do Preto Velho da Mata Escura, in the Bom Jardim neighborhood, Fortaleza-CE. The images unveil the subtle body, between worlds, bringing and carrying Pombagira to and from the crossroads of existence. Daughter of the streets, Majesty Pombagira enchants through the blood pulsing in her medium’s veins. The images are rides and laughter. Spins, turns, circles. Pulsing life. Shedding. Binding. Knife’s cut. Pleasure and ecstasy. Prayer and healing. Mystery.
subject: Galeria
  topic: section
subject: Pombagira
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subject: Umbanda
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subject: Afro-Brazilian religion
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subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Jean dos Anjos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jean dos Anjos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-04-15
publication date: 2025-04-15
starting page: e025004
ending page: e025004
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20313

A night in paradise
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description: The review of the film "Suely in the Sky" ("O Céu de Suely"), directed by Karim Aïnouz, uses tools from social sciences and psychoanalysis, especially Lacanian theory, to think about how the protagonist's desire and idealizations about love and territory(ies) (s) that he inhabits, and/or wherever he passes, are articulated with the body and identity, producing transits and recurrences. The exit through prostitution, in this context, translates into a turning point, into the possibility of creative agency of living conditions through the adoption of a provisional name that resituates the search for money
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Prostitution
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subject: Brazilian cinema
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subject: Lacan
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subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: João Paulo Severo da Costa
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 João Paulo Severo da Costa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-09
publication date: 2025-05-09
starting page: e025006
ending page: e025006
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20290

Neon Lights, Genre Mix and Stage Pole
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description: The text recounts the knowledge and experiences, described through personal memories, of a sex worker in three brothels in the city of Guarulhos, São Paulo. It focuses on the pole dance performances in the club stages.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Autobiography
  topic: keywords
subject: Art
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subject: Activism
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subject: Pole dance
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subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Melissa Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Melissa Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-09
publication date: 2025-05-09
starting page: e025007
ending page: e025007
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.20316

Knowledge from the taboal
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description: Cutting the taboa fibers in the taboal, that is, in the marshland, is the first step in the production process of the crafts sold at Quilombo Campinho da Independência, located in Paraty, in the southern part of the state of Rio de Janeiro. This stage involves knowledge and techniques related to the use of this natural resource, which are integral to the community’s way of life. Beyond this knowledge of production (Appadurai, 2009), the taboal is also a privileged arena for understanding conflicts between artisans and researchers regarding the management of taboa.
subject: Ensaios (Áudio) Visuais
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subject: Photoethnography
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subject: Taboal
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subject: Craft
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subject: Quilombola community
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subject: Antrhopology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Leonardo Vidal
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Leonardo Vidal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-23
publication date: 2025-05-23
starting page: e025008
ending page: e025008
doi: 10.20396/proa.v15i00.19995