The sites of sociability and social practices the inmates of the Asylum Aimorés colony (1945-1962)

• Grant number: 13/16028-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: November 01, 2013
• End date: September 30, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Zélia Lopes da Silva
• Grantee: Carla Lisboa Porto
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to investigate the sites of sociability, social codes and practices present in the colony Aimorés Asylum, former leper colony in the city of Bauru, in the northwest of the state of São Paulo, in the period 1945-1962. Founded in 1929 to receive patients from leprosy (leprosy), the site, now called the Lauro Souza Lima, had a physical and administrative infrastructure that enabled patients to the formation of new ties, social relationships, values and practices. In addition to the investigations of the sites of sociability and practices of internal intend to investigate whether there were social distinction between them and how it manifested itself. To this end, we investigate leisure activities and entertainment held in the building named for former patients Aimorés Casino, one of the local sociability within the institution.For this, we analyzed photos of the collection of the institution and former patients, as well as testimonials and interviews of former inmates. Furthermore, it will be studied a number of other documents, recently found in one of the institution's premises, with about five thousand items, under the generic marking "Casino." From the analysis of this group of documents and testimony from former patients, you can check, and practices and preferences of its visitors entertainment, consumer profiles, ground rules and etiquette, and possible distinctions and conflicts between different groups, from these and other social practices.

Academic Publications

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

PORTO, Carla Lisboa. Reinventing a place of exclusion: practices, representations, and sociabilities of Hansen's disease in Aimorés (Bauru, São Paulo, 1945 – 1969). 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp).