A elite setecentista instruída em Sergipe Del Rey (1725-1800)

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Eugênia Andrade Vieira da
• Orientador(a): Nascimento, Jorge Carvalho do
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Educação
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Alfabetização; Século XVIII; Sergipe; História; Família; Vida religiosa; Casamento; Cultura; Escrita
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Culture; Eighteenth century; Family; History; Literacy; Marriage; Religious life; Sergipe (Brazil); Writing
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/4607

The perception on literacy and illiteracy levels of the elite in the XVIII century in Sergipe was possible through the study on the signature and the alphabetical skills (read and write) of that population, data which had been collected from the wills and inventories. The signatures, when used as literacy indicators in previous period to the survey (Censos), by framing them into signature scales levels, provided means, even with gaps, allowing to both identify and quantify who was literate or illiterate; as well as realize what sort of family relationship, friendship and/or collusion used to bind those two groups together. It shows that signing up your name in the XVIII, in Sergipe, was not an indicator that one knew how to read and write, however the method used by the Ancient Regime and the colonial societies was first to learn how to read and only then, write. Bringing to light, in the XXI century, the women´s presence into the world of the written eighteenth culture, regardless it was a literate person, which was rare in the colonial society, or if the person was able only to sign up her name or was merely illiterate, turning to the one who would be able to help her (they would always look for men), reflecting the educational reality of the eighteenth,-the fact that the great majority was illiterate. But determining that elite literacy taking as a parameter only the signature, without crossing those pieces of information with some other sources such as biographies, written production by those authors, often offers misled results. By coming up with the alphabetical skills (read and write) it is evident that the great majority of that elite was formed by people who were inserted in that literacy culture, since when we put together 64 literate and 66 people, that were able to sign up their names, we will get 95%, at any rate, that elite used to have a high leveled literacy. This study proves that although Sergipe, in the XVIII, was a subaltern captaincy to Bahia, and also not be of economical, urban nor mining importance whose population, it vast majority, used to live in a rural area, there used to be an elite not only economical, political and social, but also instructed consisting of businesspeople (ranch people, mill, farm and commerce owners). Hence the eighteenth elite, even being composed by illiterate people, used to lie on its mediators of the written culture, spouses, relatives and friends, agents whether public or not, but they provided the support in justice issues, regardless being literate or not, provided the law allowed to everyone to reach it when necessary.