YOUTH SEXUALITIES IN THE ANAMBÉ INDIGENOUS TERRITORY IN MOJU-PA

Abstract

This study analyzes the ways in which young people from the Anambé indigenous territory, located in the municipality of Moju, state of Pará, Brazil, construct meanings about sexuality, affection, and identity within the context of their community, school, and family relationships. The research adopts a qualitative, exploratory-interpretative method, suitable for investigating subjective experiences in specific sociocultural contexts. Primary data were produced through semi-structured interviews with six young people, direct observation in the Mapurupy village, and field diary entries. Secondary data include institutional documents, public materials, and socio-territorial descriptions of the Anambé people. Data analysis followed procedures of thematic organization, coding, and discursive interpretation, allowing the identification of recurrences and singularities in the narratives. The results show that Anambé youth sexuality is traversed by intense community regulation, religious influences, and school norms, but also by practices of resistance, invention, and affective agency. The school emerges as an ambivalent space, in which moralizing discourses coexist with identity experimentations. The movement between village and city broadens subjective repertoires and contributes to the formation of hybrid identities. It is concluded that Anambé youth produce their own meanings of experiencing the body and affection, articulating tradition, territory, and external influences in constant negotiation.