âDando um banho de carinho!â â os caÃa-gringas e as interaÃÃes afetivo-sexuais em contextos de viagem turÃstica (Pipa â RN)
AUTOR(ES)
Tiago Cantalice da Silva Trindade
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2009
RESUMO
From the analysis of the affective-sexual interactions in context of tourism travels and having as stage Pipaâs Beach - RN, the current work has as main objective to reveal the process of genrification present in two spheres of social movement: the sex market and the sexual tourism, since, in this case, the subjects occupy âinvertedâ positions, in other words, female tourists (mainly those from Western Europe and Scandinavian countries) have affectivesexual relationships with native/local men (emicly known as caÃa-gringas), who, for their side, participate in these bi-national interactions in search for financial and symbolic gratification. Having been traditionally connected, respectively, to female and male role, we tried understand how the members of these combinations perform and signify their actions as well as the othersâ actions, recognizing that they subvert formulations which â as some feminist theories - contributed to root, in an doxy way, the woman as sexual service â explored â victim and man as consumer (sexual tourist) â exploiter â villain. The tension between structure and agency returns to emerge as principal support of our discussion, when we evaluate the academic discourses about the tourism âindustryâ, that are characterized, in their great part, by an emphasis on its negative consequences (especially when involving small communities), and by an underestimation of the appropriation and re-signification on part of the autochthon population - which is diametrically opposed to the powers attributed to the travelers, on account of their accumulation of financial and cultural capital. Thus, through participant observation and the register and analysis of actorsâ life trajectories (immersed in systems of inequalities), the referred study proposes to critic these positions, because was checked the capacity of active and creative action of these communities. In other words, we understand that simultaneously to the changes to the local sociability nets brought on by tourism, the receptor communities create symbolic reformulation mechanisms, which allow them, through the role-playing of their authenticity, to attend to the demands of the travelers willing to face the exotic, which includes the âgenuineâ tropical ways of life, and takes advantage of these successive fleeting contacts with tourists. Therefore, giving voice to the partners involved in these bi-national interchange, we could notice how the caÃa-gringas incorporate, tactically, the brazilianity stereotypes, offering to foreign female tourists âfantasy of powerâ, and make use of strategic essentializations, blending virility and warming, to facilitate their conquests. From this amalgamation of male and female agency principles, we propose that the caÃa-gringas manufacture a hybrid masculinity, revealing how genre identities are malleable and processual, and to which extent the agents perform their genre representations, based on culturally available subject positions. This entire analysis has as an implicit objective to question the victimizing discourses that identify the female sex workers as subjects without agency, and to demonstrate that these women, like the caÃa-gringas, are porters subjects of specific life projects and that sex market â which doesnât depend on currency intermediation â can foster subversion of genre regime, being, still, opened to the romance manifestations
ASSUNTO(S)
antropologia turismo sexual antropologia hybrid masculinity sexual tourism agency caÃa-gringa affective-sexual relations in context of tourism travel sexo â mercado (transactional) sex market masculinidade hÃbrida â agencias de viagem
