Um corpo como fronteira: parentesco e identificações entre descendentes nipônicos "mestiços"

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Hatugai, Érica Rosa
• Orientador(a): Machado, Igor José de Renó
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Carlos; Câmpus São Carlos
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social - PPGAS
• Palavras-chave em Português: Mestiço; Parentesco; Família mista; Corpo
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Person of mixed-race; Family relationship; Mixed family; Body
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::ANTROPOLOGIA::TEORIA ANTROPOLOGICA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/10673

This research analyses the figure of the “mixed-race” person, the ‘mixed’ family comprised of Japanese descendants, and non-descendants, most of whom live in the city of Marília, a countryside city at 446 kilometers away from São Paulo, Brazil. The data show a notion of fluid Japaneseness of the “mixed-race” person, who is thus intertwined with the concepts of corporality, modes, and tensions characteristic of a “Japanese” relationship. About the identification of the “mixed-race” person and ‘mixed’ families, the research shows that the way they perceive themselves and the way they are represented lead to clashes and tensions upon the notions of culture and “Japanese” relationship when compared to families only comprised of Nikkei members. This research approaches the place of the person of “mixed-race” and the ‘mixed’ family in the history of Japanese immigration to Brazil, raising the role of alliances and conflicts present in the notion of “Japanese” relationship. The absence of such a theme in the scientific literature of the Japanese immigration to Brazil may have obfuscated its debate up to the present, in despite of the objective reality and social tensions still alive in this phenomenon. Therefore, this research aims at presenting new elements to help reflect upon one of the many repercussions of the Japanese immigration and presence in Brazil.