A modernidade é uma serpente

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Françoso, Luís Michel [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Mito; Cobra; Civilização moderna; Poder (Ciencias sociais); Espaço urbano; Myth; Araraquara (SP)
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/132594; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/16-12-2015/000855989.pdf

This paper's objective is to analyze the serpent myth from the municipality of Araraquara, SP, through the use of anthropologist Lévi-Strauss' canonic formula and, from there, point out possible articulations between the uses of a mythical discourse and the political relations in the city of Araraquara. The construction of a city is a project of political dispute for the definition of the space. Thus, a field of sensibility is constituted from the myth, which generates intense discursive conflicts, imposing an ethos to the city. The referred serpent myth narrates a curse cast by the Matriz priest at the time, stating that Araraquara would not have progress for a 100 years, that an enormous serpent would stay beneath the church, and that, should the city ever develop, the serpent would come out and destroy all of it. If the serpent does come out, an eagle, located at the fountain at the center of the Matriz's plaza, would face it in order to protect the city. Therefore, this project's object is the uses of the myth and how its narrative is appropriated in favor of the production of new contents about the city, in an attempt to obtain exclusivity in the enunciation of modernity as a value. Modernity is thought of here in its contentious dimension, inventor of the urbis, seeking to establish new centers of power. Lastly, this research aims to contribute to the comprehension of the tense and negotiated dimension which permeates the formation process of Brazilian middle-sized towns