Sexuality and Intercultural Education

The study provides a critical-interpretative analysis of Rodolpho Amoedo's museumified work Marabá focusing on understanding how the sexualized female body added symbolic representations to the Brazilian socio-cultural imagination of the 19th century with its projections into contemporary themes. In light of Charles S. Peirce's semiotics the reading of Marabá's sexualized female body as a territory of symbolic representations of the Brazilian socio-cultural imagination of the 19th century allows us to understand how the relationships between education sexuality and interculturality are projected onto contemporary subjects. It was concluded that the 19th-century body was ruled by the order of repression around sexuality as a form of control and maintenance of the interests of dominant ideologies and therefore a forbidden body contrasting with the contemporary order of exhibiting the body through a discourse of freedom or anything goes not as a locus of belonging but as a symbolic place that although it uses other indices remains under the aegis of the discourse of order: control and maintenance of the interests of dominant ideologies.