‘Cria(da)s’, ‘Casadas’: “meninas”, “circulação” e “entrega” em Breves (Marajó)

Abstract

The presented thesis identifies and reads, anthropologically, narratives and livings of "circulation" and "deliver" of female adolescents, around sexuality, built in the day-to-day, in Breves town, in Marajó. Its an etnography that has been realized between the years of 2016 and 2020, in the refered town, using as methodology, the direct and participant observation. The research contemplated as main interlocutors 36 people being 26 women and 10 men, besides listening dynamics in conversation wheel another 26 adolescents – 15 girls and 11 boys – and another 18 children from public schools and also a number of residents with whom there has been coliving, observation and listening throughout the period of realization of the research in the field. Through theorical references from feminism and studies of coloniality it has been observed and analyzed inside the process of circulation, enlarged in this thesis, the movemente of deliver, not only of "crias de família" but also the deliver of teenage girls to the marital purposes. Both movements – and rituals – of delivery possibilitate visualizing relationships crossed by reflexes of Brazilian colonization, observed, in a type of "enslavery culture", but also by relationships of coloniality in all of its dimensions, such as genre, once these dynamics are, mainly, with girls, in a process that objetifies them, but in which also can be observed their actions in the sense of confrontation and resistence to the lived opressions.