Antropologia e sexualidade: por um descentramento da enunciação científica

Abstract

The following article intends to be a political interpellation to anthropology. We seek to investigate the viability of anthropology in applying to its own protocols of research a cultural domination criticism, in order to face the challenges that the sexualities have to face nowadays. Some etiologies, such as “inverted” or “perverts”, frequently found in anthropological literature, signalize to a normative dimension of this social knowledge. Considering this, the present article aims to set the grounds for a demonstration of some benefits and limitations of anthropology: if an anti-naturalistic critique may be found in anthropology, the theoretical place it offers to think homosexuals ways of living must be completed with recent literature that allows to unveil socialand domination relations incorporated in gender norms.