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| Author(s): |
Lucas Mestrinelli
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2023-09-26 |
| Examining board members: |
João Felipe Ferreira Gonçalves;
Daniel De Lucca Reis Costa;
Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz;
Lynn Mario Trindade Menezes de Souza
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| Advisor: | João Felipe Ferreira Gonçalves |
| Abstract | |
This thesis consists of an analysis of the production of stories in different places in the Indian state of Goa, based on ethnographic material collected over twelve months of field research, which were distributed over three trips between 2017 and 2020. In each one of its chapters, the production of history is examined from specific means: visual means, such as cartoons and photographs; oral means, such as testimonials, interviews and informal conversations; material means such as temples, ruins and museums. The histories analyzed convey the idea that Goa is different from India due to its high degree of cosmopolitanism and openness to the world. This Goan particularity is studied in reference to the context of Indian state policies, in which the problematization of the particular type of federalism prevailing in India since independence stands out, where the country\'s states seek to assert their particularity, be it linguistic, historical or cultural. More specifically, Goa\'s distinctiveness is analyzed in the context of its late incorporation into India, which took place in December 1961. After this date, Goa ceased to be a Portuguese colonial territory, and a series of disputes began around its future as a part of India, where the fundamental element of the main political controversies is precisely its distinctiveness. This theme gains special relevance in the current Indian political context, in which the growing Hindu nationalism (hindutva) has as one of its objectives to reject the diversity and cosmopolitanism with which many Goans identify. This thesis thus seeks to place Goa in its Indian context, removing the centrality that many studies written in Portuguese attribute to the Portuguese element in its history and culture (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/19437-0 - Space and history: an ethnography of old Goa, India |
| Grantee: | Lucas Mestrinelli |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |