Guerra, mundão e consideração: uma etnografia das relações sociais dos jovens no Serviluz

Abstract

This thesis is an ethnography of the cultural practices of young residents of the community at the corner of Serviluz eastern coastline of the city of Fortaleza. Make a description of the social life of young people whose families african-Amerindian descendants of fishermen, seamen, surfers, sea workers, laborers, small traders, but also prostitutes, thieves, robbers, drug dealers, which are a minority among the mass of workers in the slum, but are also poor, illiterate, and functionally illiterate, with very low education and qualification weak and poor, living in conditions of poverty and subordinate social and intense vulnerability and civil status. This ethnography examines young people's lives in a favela which is considered one of the most dangerous and violent by the symbolic order of the city. It is militarily occupied by the military police of the state permanently at a high level of police brutality everyday added to the lethality of death squads of various origins illegal. From the standpoint of theoretical and conceptual, is a socio-cultural research on the ethnographic notions of guerra, mundão, favela and consideração among the local people "involved" and not involved in the criminal world, based on theoretical problematization of the place of the person and of the violence from the native’s point of wiew. This is a study of the social relations of these people about the symbolic significance of becoming a person in the context of a favela as a local stigmatized as extremely violent, considered as a source of moral depravity, prostitution, crime, gang warfare, ritual murders, assaults and, consequently, fear and insecurity for the city.