in the backcountry trails: : writings on culture and politics in the interior of Ceará
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Ceará, Culture and politics, Backlands, Political contexts, History of CearáSynopsis
The sertão, as a discursive production, was part of Portuguese spatial definitions during European expansion. Sertão, there, referred to places far from the coast, associated with a low demographic density. In other words, at first, the term sertão referred to places not yet populated or colonized by the Portuguese company; therefore, non-“civilized” spaces, in the sense that to civilize was to adapt a region to the colonizing order.
However, from the second half of the 19th century, with the formation of nationalist discourse and the construction of a national identity, the term was gradually re-elaborated by literature to acquire a sense of “national identity”, an imagined spatiality where originality of “Brazilian” culture was better preserved. Therefore, from the concept of sertão, the definition of the sertanejo was born as the entity that embodied the roots of the “homeland”. As an example, the work “O Sertanejo”, by José de Alencar, which composes a hinterland as a space of power personified in the sense of justice of Arnaldo and the Major Captain of the militia, Campelo1.
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On the trails of Cariri in Ceará:an extensionist proposal with african cinema
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“Does this story make sense?” Sensibilities and telos in the writing of the history of Sobral in the work of Father João Mendes Lira
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Tensions, intentions and interactions:cultural heritage, tourism and pilgrimage in Juazeiro do Norte
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Teaching history from Cariri:the use of concepts and resources didactic
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Dreaming about the dead
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Manuel de Abreu Hospital:a place of healing and power in the lungs of the Cariri
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Back and forth of a city:gossip and the “control” of dating
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“Catholic Press and political organization are our weapons.” The newspaper Correio da Semana and the anti-communist discourse. Sobral-CE (1930-1945)
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The Demon of Pontal da Santa Cruz in Santana do Cariri-CE: memory and narrative
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“Dispel the cruel pestilence, powerful intercessor”:Marian devotion and cholera epidemic in 19th century Cariri
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Politics for the poor:recruitment, arrests and beatings in Ceará (1799-1837)
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Sex and the colonization of the backlands of Brazil (17th century and XVIII)
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