Do nomadismo ao sedentarismo: transformações da identidade e da cultura Romani na região de Rio Grande e Pelotas.

Abstract

This research sought to cooperate with the social sciences, in order to understand the resignification of identity and culture, from the transition processes from nomadism to sedentary lifestyle. Considering the social relevance of the theme, considering that it deals with historically fragile groups, facing anti-Gypsy policies, persecution and anti- Gypsyism. Thus, the general objective revolves around the transformations of Romani culture and identity, with the process of sedentarization and from specific urban contexts (Rio Grande and Pelotas). As for the specific objectives, it is proposed to analyze the identity from the new meanings that the subjects build in these realities and sociability that they start to share; observing how subjects create and recreate their web of cultural representations and meanings; not only in marked urban spaces, but also in virtual spaces that emerge in the research as a privileged field in which subjects re-signify themselves or reaffirm their cultural and identity practices. From a theoretical point of view, to address the issues of the sedentarization process with support from Deleuze and Mafessoli and Said, to understand the construction and transformations of identity and culture, the postcolonial theory of Hall, Gilroy and Bhabha was used, as well as the anthropological bias of Geertz, Wagner and Oliveira; thinking Cyberspace through Lévy and the intersection of history, memory and identity mainly through Candau and Halbwachs. Using a qualitative methodology, the methodological procedures used in the investigation are ethnography, narrative interviews, netnography and, to a lesser extent, quantitative data (governmental and non-governmental).