Coronéis e compadres: família, poder e lealdade no sertão

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Souza Júnior, Zenildo Soares de
• Orientador(a): Bernardo, Teresinha
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Ciências Sociais
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Coronelismo; Parentesco; Poder; Compadrio
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Coronelismo; Kinship; Power; God parenthood
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3659

This doctoral thesis aims to analyze, from a new perspective, the dynamics of social relations in a typical environment of the Brazilian rural interior, aimed more broadly understand the mechanisms that act on sociability and the political behavior of this population. Here, we propose a multidisciplinary analysis, examining factors used in the classic issue of dealing with the concept of coronelismo, under the academic perspective and also in the common sense of the plan. And points as genuine training tool of rural sociability provincial family based structures, in particular the institute of god parenthood, which serves as a basic element of the cultural model and its features. In an anthropological and historical approach, the paper examines the process of formation of nationality, prepared by identifying the elements considered "desirable" and hence the rejection of many others. These features, presented as anachronisms and obstacles to the "modernization" of the country, promoted the formation of an exclusive national discourse, inducing consider as subordinate the dominant traditional values in the rural environment. Thus, there has been a discriminatory environment in qualitative terms, alienating the people of the interior and helping to prevent, in practical terms, their integration into the environment of imagined community that builds the Brazilian national fabric