An Urban Family in Brazil
Author : Julia Elizabeth Rogers Carman
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Families
ISBN :
Author : Julia Elizabeth Rogers Carman
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Families
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Devaney Harblin
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Families
ISBN :
Author : Dain Edward Borges
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 1992-07
Category :
ISBN : 0804765499
This history of the Brazilian family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries studies the relationship between the informal institution of the family and such formal social institutions as medicine, the law, organized politics, and the church. The author focuses primarily on middle- and upper-class families (for whom adequate documentation is available) and shows the change from a patriarchal model of the family to one that was more conjugal and nuclear, a change necessitated by an insecure and urbanizing economy. Nevertheless, Bahian families maintained many traditional values and traditional kin networks. The author examines the daily life and dynamics of households, including what is known about lower-class families, where consensual arrangements were the norm. He looks at the history of the medical profession, the legal profession, and the Catholic church, and he describes the attempts of each group to mobilize the family for its own political, social and cultural ends. The author argues that family ideology - and families themselves - resisted and transformed the efforts of these institutions to impose their will. The book also deals with the changes and continuities in Bahian attitudes and beliefs about courtship, honor, and the place of women, as well as the ways in which Bahians projected a familial ethic onto social relations outside the home. Within families, conduct was governed by a belief in the traditional rituals of 'life in the family circle': weekly family dinners at the table of an older relative, residence in family compounds around an old mansion (or in several apartments of a single building), nepotism in public bureaucracies, and the management of both small and large businesses by families and their relatives. Although these patterns of family life were transformed over time, this study demonstrates that such traditions did survive, even thrive, well into the twentieth century
Author : Mary Lorena Kenny
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442606819
In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy—in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.). Why children migrate to the city, how they negotiate their existence, and why they stay are just some of the questions addressed in this fascinating study. Mary Kenny spent close to 15 years in the urban areas of Northeast Brazil talking with and interviewing children. She even gave them disposable cameras to document their daily lives (many of the photographs they took are included). Rather than lament a lost childhood, or try to save these children, Kenny explores some of the complex conditions under which these children work and live. She illustrates how unrelenting scarcity shapes family and, by extension, children's options, decisions, and worldviews. The issues raised in this book are of critical importance. There are no easy answers, but listening to how these children define themselves and their circumstances is an important step towards understanding and ultimately solving economic and social inequality.
Author : Manoel Tosta Berlinck
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Families
ISBN :
Author : Manoel Tosta Berlinck
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Families
ISBN :
Author : Thomas E. Weil
Publisher :
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Brazil
ISBN :
Author : Eugene A. Wilkening
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Families
ISBN :
Author : Fernanda Magalhães (City planner)
Publisher :
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Slums
ISBN : 9781597821636
Author :
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9211322146
"Data prepared by the Sao Paulo-based Fundacao Sistema Estadual de Analise de Dados (SEADE) in collaboration with UN-HABITAT"--T.p. verso.