Escrituras antropológicas da dor

sentimentos morais compartilhados e o mal estar ético

Abstract

Inspired by Veena Das, this essay analyses what I have been naming as anthropological writings on pain, that is, ethnographic texts whose substratum are memories of grief, pain and suffering experienced by victims and relatives of victims of state political violence. Based on the assumption that, although to conduct an ethnography and to write ethnographic texts about experiences of pain and suffering is a knowledge enterprise situated within an academic scientific discipline - anthropology -, it assumes a moral engagement on the part of researchers in the face of the pain of the other. It seeks to grasp the tensions and dislocations between the ethical and the political, between professional responsibility and moral, political and emotional commitments that, it seems to me, shape these research experiences.