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| Author(s): |
Nelson Aprobato Filho
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: | 2007-01-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Nicolau Sevcenko;
Carlos Roberto Ferreira Brandao;
Mateus José Rodrigues Paranhos da Costa;
Janes Jorge;
Maria Inez Machado Borges Pinto
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| Advisor: | Nicolau Sevcenko |
| Abstract | |
The main purpose of this research is to discuss the history of animals in the city of São Paulo in the context of urban, scientific, technological and sociocultural changes occurred from the late 19th century to the first decades of the 20th century. The central point for this investigation is the issue of Modernity and the Scientific and Technological Revolution and how the particularities and impacts of such events affected the various animal species existing in the São Paulo capital; how these animals were used in the process of \"modernization\" of the city, and the multiple relationships established between them and man. Through inputs from several sources (literary and iconographic records, municipal laws, Mayors\' reports, newspapers, etc.), this history was recovered according to five interpretative dimensions: the animals and the local government; the animals and the scientific research institutions; the animals and the modern technologies; the animals and the city daily life; the animals and the human practices of sensitiveness, respect and tolerance. For the development of this research, sources of inspiration and bridges to understanding were Walter Benjamin\'s studies and reflections on modernity and the modern metropolis, hermeneutic assumptions developed by Hans-George Gadamer; theories on daily life and informality by Michel Maffesoli and Michel de Certeau; Maurice Merleau-Ponty\'s phenomenology of perception and Reinhart Koselleck\'s multiple temporalities; Ilya Prigogine\'s stochastics, and Stephen Jay Gould\'s neo-Darwinism and paleontology (AU) | |