Abstract
In this text I discuss the ways in which gender is made through practices and feelings of humiliation. Also discuss humiliation as a relevant category for the debate about gender relations. Humiliation will be thought of as an act and simultaneously as an emotion that unfolds in and is constituted by other multiple acts and emotions that can be distinguished from each other and given different names. I use as examples ethnographic cases about affective relationships and subjective experiences in which humiliation acts to denote hierarchies, without being morally configured, previously, as violence.
Keywords:
humiliation; emotions; gender; anthropology