A Terreiro That’s “Too Young, Too gay”: Technologies of Persistence and growth in the W/world

Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI:10.1590/1809-4341.2023v20a20603

José Miguel Nieto Olivar

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Abstract

Abstract In this manuscript I present how in the city of Tabatinga (AM) -- on the triple border between Brazil, Peru, and Colombia -- the Father Jairo and His Children Network are engaged in a process of persistence, care, and growth in order to traverse a World that presents itself as a threat to their lives and their worlds. This process involves the consolidation of a technology of housing in the World, empowered by the grammar of Umbanda/Macumba, connected with youth, gender, and (homo)sexuality. Its material “ground” is the process of construction of the group’s terreiro. Based on 10 years of ethnography and in dialogue with theoretical discussions regarding cosmopolitics, materialities, and W/world(s) in de/anti/contracolonial perspectives, I argue that through this process, the network has built a world-for-them/us (wƒ#) that enables it to cross the World-as-Threat (WƒT) and to recall the World-as-struggle (W/s): WƒT>>wƒ#<

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一个“太年轻，太同性恋”的特雷罗:W/世界中的持续和成长技术

在这份手稿中，我展示了在塔巴廷加市(AM)——位于巴西、秘鲁和哥伦比亚三国边界上——贾罗神父和他的孩子们网络如何参与一个坚持、关怀和成长的过程，以穿越一个对他们的生活和世界构成威胁的世界。这一过程涉及巩固世界住房技术，由umanda /Macumba语法授权，与青年、性别和(同性恋)性行为联系在一起。它的材料“地面”是集团的terreiro的建设过程。基于10年的民族志研究，以及在反/反/殖民主义视角下关于世界政治、物质化和W/world(s)的理论讨论的对话，我认为，通过这一过程，网络已经建立了一个为他们/我们的世界(w#)，使其能够跨越世界作为威胁(WƒT)并回忆世界作为斗争(W/s): WƒT>> w# <

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