Cecilia Anne Mccallum
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 241106 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cecilia Anne Mccallum |
| NOMBRES | Cecilia Anne |
| APELLIDO | Mccallum |
| FIRMA | MCCALLUM C A |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidade Federal da Bahia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1927-7774 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 448 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Direitos frágeis e desigualdades aprofundadas
O objetivo é analisar acesso e qualidade da atenção a gestantes e puérperas na pandemia de COVID-19 e correlações com marcadores sociais de desigualdades. Inquérito on-line, com 324 mulheres que pariram na pandemia. Análises bivariadas e multivariada com regressão logística investigaram associação entre fatores sociodemográficos e desfechos à saúde reprodutiva, calculados OR e IC95%. Pré-natal inadequado associou-se a menor escolaridade (3,0; 1,5…
Programa Atenas
A criminalização do aborto no Brasil e o acesso restrito ao misoprostol obrigam mulheres a buscarem métodos inseguros para sua indução. Atenção hospitalar ao aborto induzido ou espontâneo é padrão. Na contracorrente, no cenário internacional, a telessaúde no aborto medicamentoso é padrão ouro da atenção às perdas gestacionais, espontâneas ou induzidas. Este artigo apresenta o Programa Atenas iniciativa inédita de atenção ao aborto no primeiro tri…
Atenas Program
The criminalization of abortion and restricted access to misoprostol in Brazil force women to seek unsafe methods to terminate a pregnancy. Hospital care for miscarriage or abortion is standard. In contrast, telemedicine for the medical management of miscarriage and abortion is the gold standard of care internationally. This article presents the Atenas Program - an unprecedented initiative for first trimester abortion/miscarriage care, aiming at …
Entre amor, vergonha e culpa
Este artigo analisa os discursos emocionais e emocionados ligados às experiências de familiares de homens trans durante o processo de transição de gênero. A discussão trata dos resultados de uma pesquisa etnográfica que utilizou diferentes estratégias metodológicas em três cidades do nordeste brasileiro, sendo duas capitais e uma cidade do interior, entre 2020 e 2023. Inicialmente o artigo aborda os sentimentos, relatados pelos parentes dos homen…
A geração de casas e crianças na Bahia
Riachão" é uma vila de pescadores e marisqueiras artesanais no Baixo-Sul da Bahia, onde o reconhecimento da paternidade ocorre entre concepção e o processo de tornar pública uma gravidez. As pessoas se relacionam como parentes e afins a partir das casas, que são agentes centrais na constituição de relacionalidade (relatedness). A discussão etnográfica evidencia como a relacionalidade emerge nas dinâmicas das relações amorosas, de iniciação sexual…
The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
The tense but enduring engagement between anthropology and gender and sexuality studies has had profound effects upon anthropological theory and practice. Bringing together contributions from an international team of authors, this Handbook shows that anthropological work has taken inspiration from feminist and LGBTQI movements to create a transformative body of research. It provides an accessible, state-of-the-art overview of the anthropology of …
Blood, Gender, and Politics in Indigenous View
A historical account of the key debates and ethnographies about Amerindian gender, politics, and social life would tell a story of how, in the anthropology of the region, the focus shifted from “society” to “sociality,” from models of kinship to the body to socio-cosmology, and from an epistemological concern with “social representations” to a firm gaze on “Indigenous ontologies” and “cosmopolitics.” This story is told, in part, in this chapter. …
Paternidades Trans Uma análise etnográfica das experiências parentais de um homem trans em Salvador
Este artigo apresenta a paternidade transmasculina a partir da análise do caso de Tiago, um homem trans, e sua família na cidade de Salvador, Bahia, a partir da noção antropológica de relacionalidade (relatedness). O trabalho enfoca a construção de relações de parentesco como processuais, emergentes durante a trajetória biográfica de Tiago em que ocorre a transição de gênero. Para isso, examina como são negociados os sentidos de paternidade e mat…
Gender, Sociality, and the Person
The chapter traces how anthropologists reconfigured theorizing the social through gender-sensitive ethnographic work, which led to a turning away from the “society thinking” rooted in liberalist humanism, to a greater emphasis on process and on notions of sociality and the person. An appreciation of Marilyn Strathern’s contributions to this reconfiguration, at distinct moments of its history, structures the discussion, which is elaborated with re…
Trustworthy Bodies
Ritual and the origin of sexuality in the Alto Xingu
This chapter disputes the validity of an approach, focusing on one Amazonian social complex – the Alto Xingu area of central Brazil. Through an analysis of the Xingu material on myth, ritual and kinship it seeks a more exact understanding of gender and power than a simplistic notion of patriarchy or male control would allow. The chapter constructs the Xinguano philosophy of production and personhood, which is founded upon concepts to do, on the o…
Abortion and the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic may accentuate existing problems, hindering access to legal abortion, with a consequent increase in unsafe abortions. This scenario may be even worse in low- and middle-income countries, especially in Latin America, where abortion laws are already restrictive and access to services is already hampered. Our objective was to understand how different countries, with an emphasis on Latin Americans, have dealt with legal abortion…
The Brazilian State as an agent of the reproductive process in a village in the Baixo-Sul of Bahia
This article explores reproduction as a broad phenomenon that is integrated to social life and marked by power relations, in an analysis of the processes and structures that integrate subjects' lives and bind them with the State. Reproductive processes, which are more than physiological, connect subjects, health services and other sectors that represent the State. This ethnographic study, carried out between 2011 and 2015, focused on reproduction…
Kinship and the Child
Making kin, through procreation, childbirth and childcare, is for the Cashinahua the archetypal process whereby real people are made. The fluid and permeable separation between living persons and supernatural entities means that sex with spirits in corporeal form may also result in conception, though these babies are malformed or born as twins. Women give birth inside their own houses, in the privacy of their mosquito-nets, with the help of at le…
Making Community
This chapter discusses the facets of the formation of larger-scale settlements or villages amongst the Cashinahua during the 1980s and 1990s. It also discusses the main leader is a central figure in the making of these modern communities and how he must juggle his dual role as internal leader and external representative. A ‘true leader’ gathers people together, using his ties to siblings and other kin, as do male leaders all over lowland South Am…
Ritual and Regeneration
A ‘community’ is the spatial and corporeal dimension of sociality, and the visible manifestation of the myriad processes and actions that go into its making. A ‘community’ is the spatial and corporeal dimension of sociality, and the visible manifestation of the myriad processes and actions that go into its making. It bears witness to the micro-historical processes that have produced true persons as well as to larger historical events and developm…
Consumptive Production
Women’s production is celebrated by women themselves in semi-ceremonial collective expeditions that female leaders organize; and women are instrumental in the distribution of male and female products, in prestations that strengthen their and their husband’s ties with kin and affines. The labour involved in the preparation of a single product might come from several people, but nevertheless the product belongs to only one person. In Melanesia, per…
Creating Gender
The proceedings begin with a set of nocturnal invocations, known as pakadin , sung by the male and female chant-leaders with a chorus from the children’s parents. Nixpo Pima marks the first step in the deliberate creation of gendered difference between boys and girls. The spaces that the adolescents inhabit, the words they hear, the sights they see and the substances with which they come into contact, all these shape and penetrate their beings as…
Gender and Sociality
In Amazonian studies it has been commonplace to approach the topic of gender as concerned primarily with social, economic and political structures. The phrase ‘gender relations’ signified social relations between men and women treated as distinct social groups or as discrete individuals organized by a sexual division of labour. A favourite site for discussing ‘relations between the sexes’ or ‘the genders’ is the analysis of ritual. In such contex…
Producing Sociality
Sociality is carved out in the daily round, in a series of economic processes that are at once material, conceptual and signifying. The series includes a variety of forms of production and appropriation of products, their distribution, circulation, consumption and transformation. Elias believed in the old-fashioned values according to which a man should hunt one day, and on the next work hard in his garden in order to be able to feed his family. …
Gender and Sociality in Amazonia
This is the first book to focus directly on gender in Amazonia for nearly thirty years. Research on gender and sexual identity has become central to social science during that time, but studies have concentrated on other places and people, leaving the gendered experiences of indigenous Amazonians relatively unexplored. McCallum explores little-known aspects of the day-to-day lives of Amazonian peoples in Brazil and Peru. Taking a closer look at t…
A cena da ultrassonografia na atenção ao aborto
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as práticas e significados em torno da ultrassonografia obstétrica (USG) em mulheres com abortamento na maternidade pública em Salvador, Bahia, Brasil. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, etnográfica, que envolveu observação participante das interações entre mulheres, profissionais de saúde médicos e não médicos, na sala de USG de uma maternidade pública, durante três meses. A USG ocupa um lugar central no iti…
Making ecumenes
The article reconsiders the concept of ecumene in anthropology, through a focus on Panoan-language-speaking indigenous peoples in Brazil. It explores the notion that ecumenes are intersubjectively forged space-times and it critiques culturalist and evolutionist approaches to the ecumene concept. Drawing on ethnography of Yawanawá and Cashinahua, analysis treats ecumenes as dynamic space-times within which amity and enmity arise and identity polit…
Experiências de abortos provocados em clínicas privadas no Nordeste brasileiro
Baseado numa investigação qualitativa desenvolvida em 2012, o artigo analisa experiências de abortos provocados de pessoas de estratos sociais médios realizados em clínicas privadas. Foram narradas 34 histórias de gravidezes interrompidas em clínicas por 19 mulheres e cinco homens, residentes em duas capitais do Nordeste brasileiro. Uma análise temática revela que existem diferentes tipos de clínicas e de atendimento prestados pelos médicos. O ar…
O dilema de uma prática
Discute o aborto pelas perspectivas de mulheres internadas em uma maternidade pública de Salvador (BA). Enfatiza a observação participante do cotidiano do hospital e descreve trabalho de campo com técnicas de pesquisa qualitativa e quantitativa. Por perspectiva etnográfica, aborda a experiência hospitalar de mulheres diante da interrupção, voluntária ou não, da gravidez e apresenta o ponto de vista dos profissionais de saúde, argumentando que a f…
The Body That Knows
This article develops an anthropology of the body in its material and social environment among the Cashinahua (Huni Kuin)from Brazilian and Peruvian Amazonia. The Cashinahua body, it shows, is thought of as produced by others, not as growing naturally. Growth can be defined as the corporeal accumulation of knowledge in the form of "soul." The article describes the verbal, medical, and other techniques used to transform it into "a body that knows.…
A Discourse-Centered Approach to Culture
Aproximações socioantropológicas sobre a gravidez na adolescência
Este artigo tem o objetivo de discutir a construção da gravidez na adolescência enquanto um problema social. Visa também apresentar e analisar os dados da etapa qualitativa da pesquisa Gravidez na Adolescência: Estudo Multicêntrico sobre Jovens, Sexualidade e Reprodução no Brasil (Pesquisa GRAVAD), desenvolvida em três capitais brasileiras: Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro e Salvador. Os dados indicam o caráter indissociável da articulação entre clas…
Racialized bodies, naturalized classes
In this article, I describe racialization processes in Brazil's third-largest urban center, Salvador da Bahia, focusing on a broadly defined field of social practice. In a cross-class ethnographic portrait of the city, I examine the situated, embodied production of meanings about the body, as subjects move through urban space and time. I trace the emergence of racialization from residents' microhistorical passages through the metropolis as these …
Explaining caesarean section in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
In Salvador da Bahia the caesarean section rate is excessive, as it is in Brazil as a whole. It is the standard form of delivery in private hospitals, though vaginal delivery still predominates in the public sector. This paper investigates the social context of these styles of childbirth, arguing that the connections between both sectors sustain this situation. Exploring the factors leading to the preference in private and insurance-funded matern…
Language, Kinship and Politics in Amazonia
This article explores the complex interrelationship between language, kinship, and politics in Amazonia. McCallum argues against the prevailing view that Amazonian societies are characterized by a simple correlation between linguistic exogamy and inter-tribal alliance. She demonstrates how linguistic boundaries are often manipulated and redefined in accordance with shifting political alliances and kinship strategies. Drawing on ethnographic examp…
Morte e pessoa entre os kaxinawá
Este artigo apresenta uma etnografia do pensamento e das práticas relativos à morte, ao processo de morrer e à condição de pessoa entre os Kaxinawá (Huni Kuin) da Amazônia Ocidental (Brasil e Peru Oriental). Articula o simbolismo de gênero, resultante das práticas cotidianas, com a forma das relações sociais estabelecidas entre a pessoa agonizante e os espíritos terrestres, aquáticos e celestiais em cada etapa do processo de morrer. A etnografia …
Alteridade E Sociabilidade Kaxinauá
O artigo desenvolve uma análise processual de socialidade como construída diariamente pelos Kaxinauá, um povo amazônico. Discute criticamente o uso de "sociabilidade" nas análises antropológicas dos povos da região, questionando a tendência de ver o "doméstico" como inferior ao "público", ou o local como englobado pelo global. Defende maior ênfase no ciclo econômico de produção e distribuição, troca e consumo, colocando o complexo processo de fab…
Consuming Pity
Gender and Sociality in Amazonia
This is the first book to focus directly on gender in Amazonia for nearly thirty years. Research on gender and sexual identity has become central to social science during that time, but studies have concentrated on other places and people, leaving the gendered experiences of indigenous Amazonians relatively unexplored. McCallum explores little-known aspects of the day-to-day lives of Amazonian peoples in Brazil and Peru. Taking a closer look at t…
O dilema de uma prática
Discute o aborto pelas perspectivas de mulheres internadas em uma maternidade pública de Salvador (BA). Enfatiza a observação participante do cotidiano do hospital e descreve trabalho de campo com técnicas de pesquisa qualitativa e quantitativa. Por perspectiva etnográfica, aborda a experiência hospitalar de mulheres diante da interrupção, voluntária ou não, da gravidez e apresenta o ponto de vista dos profissionais de saúde, argumentando que a f…
Re-significando a dor e superando a solidão
Este artigo examina o parto em uma maternidade pública de Salvador, Bahia, Brasil, com base na perspectiva de mulheres jovens e adolescentes, a maioria das quais negras e de classes populares. O estudo, de caráter antropológico, baseia-se na análise de entrevistas e na etnografia do hospital, particularmente do centro obstétrico. As mulheres descrevem o trabalho de parto como dominado pelo medo, solidão e dor, sensações que se transformam em amor…
Nota sobre as categorias 'gênero' e 'sexualidade' e os povos indígenas
Se a antropologia se preocupa com a possivel violencia epistemologica desencadeada pelo uso de categorias universalizantes (como genero) para falar de praticas e formas de pensamento indigenas, o mesmo nao pode ser dito sobre as preocupacoes indigenas para com suas proprias categorias, pragmatica ou discursivamente elaboradas no sentido oposto. Para a grande maioria, por exemplo, a norma e que os homens se engajem diretamente com o mundo exterior…
Childbirth as ritual in Brazil
The article examines childbirth in a public hospital in Salvador, Brazil, as a multidimensional, embodied process and as a rite of passage. The birth narratives of young, poor, black mothers are seen through ethnography of the obstetric centre, run by white, middle-class obstetricians. The article follows the biosocial process of birth, tracing the development and mutation of loneliness, fear, and pain into motherlove. This subjective journey is …
Experiências de abortos provocados em clínicas privadas no Nordeste brasileiro
Baseado numa investigação qualitativa desenvolvida em 2012, o artigo analisa experiências de abortos provocados de pessoas de estratos sociais médios realizados em clínicas privadas. Foram narradas 34 histórias de gravidezes interrompidas em clínicas por 19 mulheres e cinco homens, residentes em duas capitais do Nordeste brasileiro. Uma análise temática revela que existem diferentes tipos de clínicas e de atendimento prestados pelos médicos. O ar…
Cuidado e construção social da pessoa
O presente trabalho tem como objetivo realizar uma reflexão conceitual sobre o cuidado. Após desenvolver uma revisão da literatura, que se detém especialmente no trabalho de Ayres, defende-se a necessidade de pensar duas grandes maneiras de compreender o cuidado na área da saúde: de um lado, o cuidado constitui um horizonte normativo que orienta as práticas de saúde; de outro, tal como é mostrado com dados etnográficos, cuidado envolve a construç…
Resisting Brazil
This paper discusses ideas about 'the nation' and 'the people' expressed by residents of a low-income district in the city of Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia, Brazil. The analysis relates positive and negative evaluations of national identity to a dialectic of hegemony and resistance. It focuses on gender and race in the local making or negating of nationalism, concluding that constitutive discourses and practices must be understood in re…
Cashinahua perspectives on functional anatomy
Ontological dimensions of encounters between Brazilian biomedical Cartesianism and Amerindian perspectivism come into sharp focus in an intensive course in functional anatomy offered to trainee indigenous health agents in Acre state, Brazil. After presenting the biomedics' rationalization of the course, which centered on the supervised dissection of a cadaver, I look at Cashinahua students' accounts of their participation in the training and cons…
Abortion and the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic may accentuate existing problems, hindering access to legal abortion, with a consequent increase in unsafe abortions. This scenario may be even worse in low- and middle-income countries, especially in Latin America, where abortion laws are already restrictive and access to services is already hampered. Our objective was to understand how different countries, with an emphasis on Latin Americans, have dealt with legal abortion…
Intimidade com estranhos
Este artigo reexamina distintas abordagens que tratam da constituição da socialidade em contextos indígenas amazônicos, as quais diferem no que diz respeito ao valor heurístico atribuído à "confiança" e à "intimidade", à luz da etnografia dos Huni Kuin (Kaxinawá) sobre o corpo, a noção de pessoa, a confiança e o pensamento. Para os Huni Kuin, o pensar e o confiar são processos incorporados e constitutivos da socialidade vivida. Partindo de uma ap…
Women out of Place? A Micro-historical Perspective on the Black Feminist Movement in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
In Brazil, black women are symbolically and practically associated with domestic work. The article examines feminist responses to black women's place in the socio-economic hierarchy of the city of Salvador, Bahia. These include proposals to introduce affirmative action and a 'politics of presence', involving the election of black women to represent the city's black female constituency. It describes the racial dynamics at work between black and wh…
Comendo com Txai, comendo como Txai. A sexualização de relações étnicas na Amazônia comtemporânea
This paper discusses constructions of social identity as 'Brazilian indian' in Acre between 1983 and 1991. It focuses on the Cashinahua in their relations with pro-Indian support organizations, examining how concepts and practices producing sociality were employed or negated in this social context. To do so, the paper outlines the form interethnic relations took in the region. It relates inequality in the socio-political context to changes in gen…
Becoming a Real Woman
As they grow, Cashinahua boys and girls acquire gendered human agency through their embodied experiences and the conscious work of their kin and close affines. Men and women come to occupy specific relations with the interior and the exterior of the social domain they construct through their daily productive and consumptive activities, such that women are associated with the former and men with the latter in the constitution of sociality. A class…
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
A geração de casas e crianças na Bahia
Riachão" é uma vila de pescadores e marisqueiras artesanais no Baixo-Sul da Bahia, onde o reconhecimento da paternidade ocorre entre concepção e o processo de tornar pública uma gravidez. As pessoas se relacionam como parentes e afins a partir das casas, que são agentes centrais na constituição de relacionalidade (relatedness). A discussão etnográfica evidencia como a relacionalidade emerge nas dinâmicas das relações amorosas, de iniciação sexual…
Language, Kinship and Politics in Amazonia
This article explores the complex interrelationship between language, kinship, and politics in Amazonia. McCallum argues against the prevailing view that Amazonian societies are characterized by a simple correlation between linguistic exogamy and inter-tribal alliance. She demonstrates how linguistic boundaries are often manipulated and redefined in accordance with shifting political alliances and kinship strategies. Drawing on ethnographic examp…
A Discourse-Centered Approach to Culture
Authors' Responses to Commentaries
Morte e pessoa entre os kaxinawá
Este artigo apresenta uma etnografia do pensamento e das práticas relativos à morte, ao processo de morrer e à condição de pessoa entre os Kaxinawá (Huni Kuin) da Amazônia Ocidental (Brasil e Peru Oriental). Articula o simbolismo de gênero, resultante das práticas cotidianas, com a forma das relações sociais estabelecidas entre a pessoa agonizante e os espíritos terrestres, aquáticos e celestiais em cada etapa do processo de morrer. A etnografia …
The Body That Knows
This article develops an anthropology of the body in its material and social environment among the Cashinahua (Huni Kuin)from Brazilian and Peruvian Amazonia. The Cashinahua body, it shows, is thought of as produced by others, not as growing naturally. Growth can be defined as the corporeal accumulation of knowledge in the form of "soul." The article describes the verbal, medical, and other techniques used to transform it into "a body that knows.…
Resisting Brazil
This paper discusses ideas about 'the nation' and 'the people' expressed by residents of a low-income district in the city of Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia, Brazil. The analysis relates positive and negative evaluations of national identity to a dialectic of hegemony and resistance. It focuses on gender and race in the local making or negating of nationalism, concluding that constitutive discourses and practices must be understood in re…
Comendo com Txai, comendo como Txai. A sexualização de relações étnicas na Amazônia comtemporânea
This paper discusses constructions of social identity as 'Brazilian indian' in Acre between 1983 and 1991. It focuses on the Cashinahua in their relations with pro-Indian support organizations, examining how concepts and practices producing sociality were employed or negated in this social context. To do so, the paper outlines the form interethnic relations took in the region. It relates inequality in the socio-political context to changes in gen…
Alteridade E Sociabilidade Kaxinauá
O artigo desenvolve uma análise processual de socialidade como construída diariamente pelos Kaxinauá, um povo amazônico. Discute criticamente o uso de "sociabilidade" nas análises antropológicas dos povos da região, questionando a tendência de ver o "doméstico" como inferior ao "público", ou o local como englobado pelo global. Defende maior ênfase no ciclo econômico de produção e distribuição, troca e consumo, colocando o complexo processo de fab…
La griffe des aïeux
La griffe des aïeux: Marquage du corps et démarquages ethniques chez les Matis d'Amazonie. Philippe Erikson. Langues et Sociétés d'Amérique Traditionelle, 5. Paris: Peeters, 1996. 365 pp
Restraining Women
The paper explores constructions of masculinity and feminity in the speech and practice of residents of a low‐income settlement in Salvador, Bahia. In local talk about sexual mores and parenting, the dominant theme is the ‘liberal’ and ‘decadent’ character of the modern age. Modernity is equated with a loss of social control over female sexuality and reproduction. Embedded in this vision is a powerful gender ideology that conditions the construct…
Restraining Women
The paper explores constructions of masculinity and feminity in the speech and practice of residents of a low-income settlement in Salvador, Bahia. In local talk about sexual mores and parenting, the dominant theme is the 'liberal' and 'decadent' character of the modern age. Modernity is equated with a loss of social control over female sexuality and reproduction. Embedded in this vision is a powerful gender ideology that conditions the construct…
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
Consuming Pity
Incas e Nawas
Quando os mais velhos contam casos do passado, os jovens ficam sabendo onde viveram seus antepassados e com quem. Essas informações definem a rede de relações de parentesco na qual vivem. O conhecimento histórico é, assim, transmitido em laços de parentesco e se refere à formação de tais laços... História é parentesco para os povos nativos do Bajo Urubamba pois o parentesco é ao mesmo tempo a forma e o conteúdo de sua narração histórica.(Gow, 199…
Inimigos fiéis
Aproximações socioantropológicas sobre a gravidez na adolescência
Este artigo tem o objetivo de discutir a construção da gravidez na adolescência enquanto um problema social. Visa também apresentar e analisar os dados da etapa qualitativa da pesquisa Gravidez na Adolescência: Estudo Multicêntrico sobre Jovens, Sexualidade e Reprodução no Brasil (Pesquisa GRAVAD), desenvolvida em três capitais brasileiras: Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro e Salvador. Os dados indicam o caráter indissociável da articulação entre clas…
A saúde da mulher em situação de violência
Este estudo tem como objetivo investigar as representações de gestores/as sobre a saúde da mulher em situação de violência e a influência dessas representações nas decisões por ações de saúde para essas mulheres. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo e descritivo, do qual participaram 18 gestores/as de três municípios em Gestão Plena do SUS da Região Metropolitana do Recife (Pernambuco, Brasil). Esses gestores/as foram acomodados em três grupos disti…
Racialized bodies, naturalized classes
In this article, I describe racialization processes in Brazil's third-largest urban center, Salvador da Bahia, focusing on a broadly defined field of social practice. In a cross-class ethnographic portrait of the city, I examine the situated, embodied production of meanings about the body, as subjects move through urban space and time. I trace the emergence of racialization from residents' microhistorical passages through the metropolis as these …
Explaining caesarean section in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
In Salvador da Bahia the caesarean section rate is excessive, as it is in Brazil as a whole. It is the standard form of delivery in private hospitals, though vaginal delivery still predominates in the public sector. This paper investigates the social context of these styles of childbirth, arguing that the connections between both sectors sustain this situation. Exploring the factors leading to the preference in private and insurance-funded matern…
Childbirth as ritual in Brazil
The article examines childbirth in a public hospital in Salvador, Brazil, as a multidimensional, embodied process and as a rite of passage. The birth narratives of young, poor, black mothers are seen through ethnography of the obstetric centre, run by white, middle-class obstetricians. The article follows the biosocial process of birth, tracing the development and mutation of loneliness, fear, and pain into motherlove. This subjective journey is …
Re-significando a dor e superando a solidão
Este artigo examina o parto em uma maternidade pública de Salvador, Bahia, Brasil, com base na perspectiva de mulheres jovens e adolescentes, a maioria das quais negras e de classes populares. O estudo, de caráter antropológico, baseia-se na análise de entrevistas e na etnografia do hospital, particularmente do centro obstétrico. As mulheres descrevem o trabalho de parto como dominado pelo medo, solidão e dor, sensações que se transformam em amor…
Women out of Place? A Micro-historical Perspective on the Black Feminist Movement in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
In Brazil, black women are symbolically and practically associated with domestic work. The article examines feminist responses to black women's place in the socio-economic hierarchy of the city of Salvador, Bahia. These include proposals to introduce affirmative action and a 'politics of presence', involving the election of black women to represent the city's black female constituency. It describes the racial dynamics at work between black and wh…
Um copo de cultura
Meio quilo de gente
Successful and Failed Reproductive Subjects
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