Entre lidas: um estudo de masculinidades e trabalho campeiro nas cidades de Bagé e Pelotas/RS

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of an ethnographic research on the construction of masculinity in men cowboys who migrated from the fields of the South Rio Grande to the pampa region's urban centers. The research aimed to analyze the interweaving of the lives of changes and continuities in the lives of these men, to think as if building while male subjects and restore the continuity of social dynamics. More specifically, I will try to deal with a range of meanings related to the formation of gender identity processes against the background of changes in working practices, the way of life and the environment that surrounds these subjects., Due to the dynamics of contact with regard the relationship between local and global, past and present, individual and social group, society and the cosmos and of history, memory and experience.