Abstract
This article is a result of over 7 years of research on gender, sexuality, money, State and borderlands in Tabatinga city (AM), at the triple border region between Brazil, Colombia and Peru. I propose a reflection on the emotional production of the broder/frontier and about it as a performative materialization of specific emotional grammars. Through the strongly implicated narrative of the illness and death of Carmelo, a transborder brothel “madam” in that town, I claim that to sicken and direct into death implies in a painful process of submission and peripherization for some people, crossed by a final testing of circuits and affective grammars through which life built itself. Such process implies in effectuation and enacting of emotions that can be related to the myth-conceptual construction of Border.
Keywords:
Amazon; illness; gender; care