Gypsies in Brazil: the view of travelers in te 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century
The purpose of this article is to investigate how six travelers from the 19th and early 20th centuries, through their travel reports, describe the commercial practice of gypsies in Brazil and, in an ethnocentric way, relate it to stereotypes such as theft. The methodological route of this research w...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/43086 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/civitas/article/view/43086 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Gypsies Travelers Representations 19th and 20th centuries Gitanos Viajetos Representaciones Siglos 19 y 20 Ciganos Viajantes Representações Séculos 19 e 20 |
| Sumario: | The purpose of this article is to investigate how six travelers from the 19th and early 20th centuries, through their travel reports, describe the commercial practice of gypsies in Brazil and, in an ethnocentric way, relate it to stereotypes such as theft. The methodological route of this research was quantitative and qualitative based on a documental and bibliographical analysis. As a result, the recurrence of themes such as: commerce, appearance, language, nomadism, theft, religion, cultural practices, education and origins, with commerce being directly linked to theft in an attempt to disqualify the subject when compared to culture of those who observed them. It appears that already in the 19th and 20th centuries, stereotypes that are recurrent today were widely used and disseminated by travelers, which leads us to identify the importance of this historical source for the dissemination and construction of ethnocentric and stereotyped views. |
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