They say he is a man now

A Tale of Fathers and Sons

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2170240
AutoresMartin Fotta (0000-0002-3037-317X, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume25
Fascículo2
Páginas199-214
Data de publicação2016-04-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569325.2016.1148020
OpenAlexW2312992824
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas19

Similarly to other minimalist societies lacking formalised social structures and offices, emotions play a central role in sustaining, expressing and evaluating relationships among the Calon Gypsies of Bahia. An analysis of emotions therefore has to take into account Calon views of personal transformation and how people's interactions, as well as their views of themselves and situations, are patterned and described through emotions. The article is centred on three episodes that focus on the father-son relationship and are marked by strong affective ties. Love, fear and anger for one's father or son, and a memory of care and sharing, are set against a world that is perceived as hostile and underpin the Calon institution of revenge. This article describes how, through the performance of culturally intelligible forms of violence, actors in specific social positions manipulate and create social order. As this order is unambiguously gendered, the article explores the making of a gendered, specifically masculine subjectivity: how through an affective relationship with others, one becomes and remains a man (homem

Anger · Epistemology · Institution · Order (exchange · Set (abstract data type · Social relationship · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Migration, Identity, and Health · Psychology · Romani and Gypsy Studies · Social Psychology