Calidoscopios de género: cuerpo, masculinidad y supervivencia en el espiritualismo venezolano
2002; Volume: 12; Issue: 23 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2448-850X
Autores Tópico(s)Gender and Feminist Studies
ResumoGender Kaleidoscope: body, masculinity and survival within Venezuelan spiritism. This text is based on a field research developed in a popular neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela where informal economy and spiritism converge. The subjects of this article, people who practice Maria Lionza’s spiritism, are a group that shares survival forms, solidarity and friendship; this group also shares a continuous process of gender production, therefore constituting a “masculinity unit”. In this kind of spiritism, possession is a necessary process in the steps of healing, an essential part of the lives of a sector of the Venezuelan society. For these groups, the bodily experience is essential to understand the forms that their masculinity acquires. This text proposes that this group’s masculinity
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