A tatuagem como rito de passagem: relações entre tatuado e tatuador em Mamanguape

Abstract

The present article discusses the relationship between tattooed and tattoo artists and with the use of autoetnography as an important tool to help anthropological research as a qualitative method, in order to enhance the obtaining of reflective and subjective data, highlighting thoughts, feelings and motivations of the interlocutor, based on my research on the relationships built between tattooed and tattoo artists in the city of Mamanguape in the year 2018. The hypothesis I raise in my research is that people modify the external appearance of their bodies by experiencing true rites. passing through, with a radical change of identity and social status of these subjects. To observe such processes I used my own experience and body with the research object to analyze how the relationships created through the practice of tattooing are processed. The autoethnography and ethnography in this context was presented as a fundamental tool for the epistemological investigation of the construction of social relations.