Regret for the inconvenience: we are taking measures to prevent fraudulent form submissions by extractors and page crawlers. Received: May 08, Published: May 30, Citation: Neto JDA. Download PDF. This research record is part of the cycle of an ethnographic investigation, which I carried out from to , in territories of transvestite travesti, in Portuguese prostitution.
The ethnography that moved along these years encompassed several cities, including European cities. However, I selected only part of the records made in Aracaju for this present contribution. The clipping is due to the urgency of exposing the conditions in which travestis, a silenced, concealed, stigmatized and violated group, submit themselves, as a Brazilian cultural phenomenon, when they find themselves at the heart of the tangled tensions in the field of forces that sew their nocturnal lives in regions of prostitution.
Travestis are, in general terms, people designated male at birth, whose gender expression deviates from what is imposed on them and aligns with what is socially established as female. However, they do not consider themselves women. For this universe of people, the use of clinical methods, which possess security regarding their lives, is an impossibility, in most cases, due to the financial costs and social stigmas.
However, they do not wish to be women. The Portuguese model of Salvador's urban layout is nothing like Aracaju. Salvador was assigned urban planning street outlines and clearly demarcated definitions , and the mercantile logic and relationships that drove it were different, regarding the time period, purpose and topography Figure 1.
Source: the author photo taken in Jan 16th, We can observe that, as in part of Brazilian cities, the downtown areas are abandoned while other regions are valued, by the port in the past, more recently by real estate speculation, and violence or the discourse of security, as a social status. Aracaju, in addition to these factors, omits its past, with Atalaia being modernity.
