Entre mundos de sentido: violência sexual, família e parentesco a partir do grupo de autores em Manaus/Am

Abstract

This is an ethnography of a voluntary psychosocial group for men accused of sexual violence against children and adolescents, held in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, between 2012 and 2016. The Group of Authors, as it was called psychosocial care, was composed of a volunteer psychologist, some assistants, and the perpetrators - people who had committed a sexual crime against children or adolescents. In addition to reporting the functioning of this group, this ethnography seeks to understand which senses and sets of representation base sexual violence, based on the authors' logics. In order to access these logics, the paper uses the analysis of family and kinship relationships, seeking to demonstrate four fundamental thoughts about how men make relatives in Amazonas, and at the same time, how to make kinship related to the practices of sexual violence. The research concludes by suggesting that discovering and reflecting on such logics is a means of collaborating with the transformation of contexts of inequality and violence.