Literary bohemian, crime and labor: the making of differences in Recife in the time of Dr. Anísio (1875-1916)

• Grant number: 13/03914-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: June 01, 2013
• End date: November 05, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Sidney Chalhoub
• Grantee: Israel Ozanam de Sousa Cunha
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The historiography dedicated to social conflict in Recife between the last decades of the 19th century and the first ones of the 20th have one common trait with the discourse of this period's elite. In both cases, cultural diversity in the city is divided into two distinct groups, one corresponding to the popular practices, and the other to the practices of the high society. Therefore, it would seem that to the mass of poor workers belonged a whole set of entertainments, values, beliefs and means of subsistence estranged from the learned culture, territory of an elite dedicated to implementing its own/rules of social ordering. The research we propose in this project starts from this understanding, not to consider it as the only one possible but to inquire how it was produced by its advocates and contested by the acts of a person situated in the bottom of the social hierarchy. With this aim in mind,/it will/be analyzed the path of a man known as Dr. Anísio, that lived and died submitted to the criminal identity of cat burglar but also studied judicial practice in order to find the means of being recognized as a citizen. With his knowledge, based on readings and the observation of parliamentary debates he attended while living in Rio de Janeiro, he would write habeas-corpus and defended himself in/criminal/court rooms. This way, Dr. Anísio managed to refuse the place that was reserved to him by /scholars/at the Faculdade de Direito do Recife, who would share the same costumes and spaces associated with poverty, but at the same time considered them inherent to it, and therefore, synonyms with vice and crime. (AU)

Scientific publications

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ISRAEL OZANAM. A opção de Mariza Corrêa pelo etnógrafo oitocentista. Horiz. antropol., v. 28, n. 62, p. 47-77, 2022-03-16. (13/03914-3)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CUNHA, Israel Ozanam de Sousa. Who was Doctor Anisio?: The challenge of ethnic fiction to the social history of Rio de Janeiro (1889-1916). 2018. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.