ENSAIO POR UMA POLÍTICA ETNOGRÁFICA DO CONTÁGIO

Abstract

Excerpts from reports by three young women make up the plot of this essay in which I analyse the experience of the Gender Violence Observatory in Amazonas, a university extension program at the Federal University of Amazonas. Rizonete, Naiara and Janaína was scholarship holders at the Observatory and experienced domestic violence in their trajectories. Reflecting on the process of training and public intervention of these students and on the path in which anthropologists and feminists were forged, suggests thinking about the agencies through which they built ruptures with the violent relationships experienced; the way in which subjects of rights are claimed; and the meanings attributed by them to their practices, to the suffered violence, to feminisms and to anthropology. Interwoven with their trajectories by our crossed histories, I resort to a certain anthropological, feminist and decolonial literature to describe the conditions that made it possible to postulate an ethnographic policy of contagion, which requires radical repositioning in the field and the task of redefining the boundaries of anthropology and of ethnographic writing.