Of mice and other men: antivivisection ideas in modern Brazil

• Grant number: 11/13395-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: November 01, 2011
• End date: October 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Theory of Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Nádia Farage
• Grantee: Nádia Farage
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This proposal seeks a study of libertarian naturism, with special attention to the anti-vivisection ideas this current brings to Brazil in the first decades of the XXth century. For this, it will approach the ficcional work by Lima Barreto, with a double aim: by one side, to point out the incidence in his work of naturist thesis; by other, to point out his connections to biopolitical resistance of the time. In this larger frame, the anti-vivisection critics is strategic to understand definitional disputes on humanity and animality in modern Brazil. In sum, the study seeks to circunscribe a dissident project of nature - and, in consequence, of human condition -, a libertarian project vehiculated by Lima Barreto, in the urban struggles in Rio de Janeiro in the beginning of the XXth century. (AU)