CLAM AND THE CONFIGURATION OF THE FIELD OF SOCIO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES ON SEXUALITY IN BRAZIL: contribution to the construction of a collective memory

Abstract

This article is the result of a conference given at the international seminar CLAM 20 years: Memory of the formation of a field of studies in sexuality and human rights in Brazil and Latin America. It explores the context of implementation of the Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights, at the Institute of Social Medicine (IMS), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), within the scope of a global project financed by the Ford Foundation in different countries and continents during the first decade of the 2000’s decade. It discusses the ethical, epistemological, and political principles that guided their main initiatives and seeks to contribute to the evaluation of their role in shaping the field of socio-anthropological studies on sexuality in Brazil.