Identidade cigana, projetos de vida e lazer nos circuitos de vaquejada na Paraíba

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the re-elaboration of the ethnic identity of members of a Roma family residing in the city of Campina Grande / PB. The work revolves around a gypsy team or entitled "gypsy group" that competes in the vaquejada circuits and that is constituted by three gypsies of the family Targino Cavalcanti. The research consisted, in the first instance, of revisiting journalistic material about the family in order to reconstruct the trajectory of Gypsies between the years of 1970 and 1990, more precisely in the event described and described as "war or gypsy saga." Accessed reports published several stereotypical images about this family, which have repercussed until nowadays in the silences and avoidances by the non-gypsies and the cover-up in some situations by that gypsy family. In a second moment, the research sought to understand the insertion of the Targino Cavalcanti gypsies in the vaquejada circuit and to describe the elaborations and concretizations of life projects from leisure, consumption and relationship with animals. Finally, the objective was to understand some questions concerning interethnic relations between Roma and non-Roma, exposing the representations of non-Roma towards Roma. Through this, it was possible to perceive a distinct form of being gypsy in front of the other gypsies located in the interior of the Paraíba. Based on these questions, we recover some anthropological approaches such as identity, ethnicity, relationship with animals, leisure, consumption and life projects.