Razao, 'Cor' e Desejo: Uma Analise Comparativa sobre Relacionamentos Afetivo-Sexuais inter-raciais no Brasil e na Africa do Sul : By Laura Moutinho, UNESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2004, 450 pp., R

摘要

This book, whose title in English is Reason, Color and Desire: A Comparative Analysis on Inter-racial Affective-Sexual Relationships in Brazil and South Africa, is the publication of Moutinho's thesis in social anthropology, presented in 2001 at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, under the direction of the anthropologist, Peter Fry, who signed its preface. It is an innovative project, designed to cultivate an understanding of the marital and sexual relationships between people of different "colors" or of different "races" in Brazil (and, more precisely, in Rio de Janeiro). Let me initially note that, in an attempt to avoid misunderstanding, Moutinho consistently and systematically uses quotation marks when discussing "race" or "color" because these terms are located and used among the people from the field and, therefore, do not characterize the theory ("money of the mind," as Hegel would say) of Moutinho; nor do they correspond to the concepts that she uses.