ABSTRACT
This research attempts to apprehend the symbolic universe of racist, revisionist and neonazi pages ∈ the Internet. The aim of the investigation is to understand what kind of relationship is built between the digital and the defense of the idea of an “Aryan race”. This is done by means of ethnographic observation of practices and discursive representations posted at sites, forums, communities, chats and discussion lists. I focus on those symbolics aspects that highlight best the interface between digital and racism, by means of both empirical research and theoretical exercise. From this vantage point, some features of the identitary construction developed by racists for themselves and for others were made visible, namely, the genomic and mythic marks of their discourse, the redefinition of the frontiers between digital world and reality, and the “Aryan” political struggle ∈ the WEB. The main argument resulting from this research is that the neonazism interprets symbolically the contemporary world by articulating myths, narratives e rituals. Along this process, a specific way of identity is manifested: the “teutonicism”.
Keywords: Anthropology. Ethnography. Struturalism. Identity. Neo-nazism. Cyberspace.
(Adaptado de DIAS, A.A.M.. Anacronautas do teutonismo virtual: uma etnografia do neonazismo na Internet. Dissertação (Mestrado em Antropologia Social), Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2007.)
O texto ABSTRACT é uma adaptação do resumo da dissertação de mestrado da pesquisadora recentemente falecida, Adriana Dias, da Unicamp, reconhecida como maior especialista brasileira em neonazismo praticado na Internet.
Qual das afirmações abaixo explicaria corretamente a razão pela qual Adriana utilizou aspas em palavras específicas do texto (realçadas em negrito)?
