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| Author(s): |
Evelise Amgarten Quitzau
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação |
| Defense date: | 2016-01-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Carmen Lúcia Soares;
Agueda Bernardete Bittencourt;
Heloísa Helena Pimenta Rocha;
Andrea Moreno;
Victor de Andrade Melo
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| Advisor: | Carmen Lúcia Soares |
| Abstract | |
The 19th century is a period marked by great migratory waves of Europeans towards the American continent, and Brazil was one of their destinations. Among the groups from different nationalities who settled in our country, the Germans stood out due to the significant efforts they made in order to preserve their culture, creating different kinds of associations that worked for these purposes. They tried to preserve elements such as their language, traditions, amusements and health habits, as well as their gymnastics, which derived from pedagogical and medical theories from the late 18th century, as well as grom the German nationalist movement of the early 19th century. Its most popular expression, Turnen, was used to regenerate the population and promote the discipline needed for daily work and the defence of their homeland. This research aims to comprehend and analyze German gymnastics as a specific means of educating the body, a cultural element to be preserved and as a means os sociability for this group of immigrants in a specific context: the gymnastics associations they founded in south and southeast Brazil. We investigate the period between 1858 (when they founded the first gymnastics society in our country) until 1938 (when the nationalization politics of the Vargas government began) (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/22240-8 - Germans in Brazil: body education in German gymnastics societies in south and southeast Brazil (second half of the 19th century, first half of the XX century) |
| Grantee: | Evelise Amgarten Quitzau |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |