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标题：Animais, monstros e disformidades: a "zoologia política" no processo de construção do Império do Brasil
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作者：Marco Morel
期刊名称：Revista Estudos Históricos
电子版ISSN：2178-1494
出版年度：1999
卷号：13
期号：24
页码：251-266
出版社：Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil
摘要：Metaphors and images using animals, monsters and human body deformations, with their particularities and diversity, are part of a vast phenomenon, since it covers the whole human history, and not just one particular moment of our civilization or nationality. Without losing this perspective of sight, the article aims a historical approach: how these images were present in the debates and in the political vocabulary of the Brazilian elite that was active in Rio de Janeiro between the years 1820 and 1840 amidst the process of independence, of consolidation of the national state, of transformation of the public spaces and affirmation of a cultural policy based in the principles of modernism and constitutional liberalism. The opinative press is taken as a source and place of production of this kind of image. In this "zoology" of the political vocabulary, there were attempts of "animalization", through metaphors that aimed to disqualify the opponent, presenting him as an irrational being, i.e., without a reasoning process that could legitimate his political behavior. All this was directed towards a diversified social and political field that comprised republicans, exhalted liberals, slaves and former slaves, among others. The monarchists, seen as followers of despotism, in their turn, were associated with monsters, with abnormal human beings and, with less frequency, with animals. Located in this "founding" epoch and marked by the fixed (and not evolutionist) paradigm of the Natural Sciences, these images were able to help in the understanding the traces of the so called long lasting mental structures that play an important role in the formation of the identity and the social relations of the Brazilian society of that time.
其他摘要：Metaphors and images using animals, monsters and human body deformations, with their particularities and diversity, are part of a vast phenomenon, since it covers the whole human history, and not just one particular moment of our civilization or nationality. Without losing this perspective of sight, the article aims a historical approach: how these images were present in the debates and in the political vocabulary of the Brazilian elite that was active in Rio de Janeiro between the years 1820 and 1840 amidst the process of independence, of consolidation of the national state, of transformation of the public spaces and affirmation of a cultural policy based in the principles of modernism and constitutional liberalism. The opinative press is taken as a source and place of production of this kind of image. In this "zoology" of the political vocabulary, there were attempts of "animalization", through metaphors that aimed to disqualify the opponent, presenting him as an irrational being, i.e., without a reasoning process that could legitimate his political behavior. All this was directed towards a diversified social and political field that comprised republicans, exhalted liberals, slaves and former slaves, among others. The monarchists, seen as followers of despotism, in their turn, were associated with monsters, with abnormal human beings and, with less frequency, with animals. Located in this "founding" epoch and marked by the fixed (and not evolutionist) paradigm of the Natural Sciences, these images were able to help in the understanding the traces of the so called long lasting mental structures that play an important role in the formation of the identity and the social relations of the Brazilian society of that time.
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