Living in other people's homes : domiciliary shelter, creation and adoption in the city of São Paulo (1765-1822)

Author(s)

Alessandra Zorzetto Moreno

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2007-05-10

Examining board members

Leila Mezan Algranti; Luciana Mendes Gandelman; Renato Pinto Venancio; Robert Wayne Andrew Slenes; Leandro Karnal

• Advisor: Leila Mezan Algranti

Abstract

In the city of Sao Paulo, the public assistance to children and young orphans and abandoned emerged in the year of 1825, with the organization of a Casa de Expostos e Órfãos. In the previous period, the fathers and mothers who could not or did not want to stay with their children, included only with the aid offered by particular people who had created the childrens¿ others. Widely broadcast in Portuguese America, the practice of welcoming home for children and young people was one of the faces of a complex system of sociocultural networks. The objective of this thesis is to examine the socio-cultural practice in the city of Sao Paulo, between 1765 and 1822, seeking outline the reasons for the reception and the relationships established between receivers and accepted. (AU)