Cultural construction in gender studies in Brazil: heritage and ceramist women of Jequitinhonha valley

This article has the objective of discussing Gender Studies and its cultural construction in Brazil, alongside Heritage Studies. We have chosen to bring to the fore the women artisans of Jequitinhonha Valley because this case study brings essential elements about the construction of female and male...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Hora, Juliana Figueira, Diogo, Ligia Baruque
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Revista de Arqueologia Pública
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8663581
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rap/article/view/8663581
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Estudos de gênero
Patrimônio material
Patrimônio imaterial
Mulheres ceramistas
Vale do Jequitinhonha
Estudios de género
Patrimonio material
Patrimonio inmaterial
Mujeres de cerámica
Valle de Jequitinhonha
Gender studies
Material heritage
Immaterial heritage
Ceramist women
Jequitinhonha valley
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Sumario:This article has the objective of discussing Gender Studies and its cultural construction in Brazil, alongside Heritage Studies. We have chosen to bring to the fore the women artisans of Jequitinhonha Valley because this case study brings essential elements about the construction of female and male local identities in a fluid point of view connected with social, cultural, historical heritage, space and craft issues. The ceramist women of the region let us notice the elastic element in identities that are not marked at all. The exchange of social and gender roles is constant, regardless of the much crystalized "community pater familias” that consolidates sex as a determinant of well-marked and sectorized functions. In the case of artisan ceramist women of Jequitinhonha region, there are breakings of paradigms, boundaries, asymmetrical barriers, function, craft, and gender construction, oscillating between the paternalist traditionalism of fixed functions and the fluid and dynamic social system of the daily economic demands.