REPRESENTATIONS OF GYPSIES IN THE SUDOESTE DE GOIÁS FROM AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE: PROSPECTS AND RESEARCH POSSIBILITIES

  • MARCOS VINÍCIUS FERREIRA DA SILVA Universidade Federal de Goiás
  • PHILLIPE CUPERTINO SALLOUM E SILVA Universidade Federal de Jataí
Keywords: Legal ethnography, gypsy peoples, human rights

Abstract

This article aims to disseminate parts of the results of a research undertaken on the presence of Roma people in the State of Goiás, through an ethnographic perspective, based on what is reported on the world wide web. The purpose was to reflect on the relationship between publications on the Internet that somehow mention Gypsies and the construction of the identity of this ethnic group. In addition, it is a theoretical-methodological reflection on how to do empirical research in Law and in the Social and Human Sciences, through an ethnographic approach and a dense description of the representations about gypsies from Southwest Goiás present on the Internet, which reinforce aspects rooted in the social imaginary that associate them, predominantly, with violence and criminality, and simultaneously with mysticism and spirituality. It concludes by pointing out other possibilities for doing field work and developing research taking into account the object of study

Author Biographies

MARCOS VINÍCIUS FERREIRA DA SILVA, Universidade Federal de Goiás

Mestre em Geografia pela Universidade Federal de Goiás, bacharel em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Jataí e licenciado em Geografia pela Universidade Federal de Goiás.

PHILLIPE CUPERTINO SALLOUM E SILVA, Universidade Federal de Jataí

Doutor em Direito pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e mestre em Ciências Jurídicas pela Universidade Federal da Paraíba (2015). Professor Adjunto de Direito Processual Civil da Universidade Federal de Jataí.

Published
2023-05-06
Issue
Vol. 13 No. 2 (2022): History, Education in the Struggles of Traditional Peoples and Communities
Section
articles