Uma análise do conceito antropológico do outro na obra do escritor Augusto Emílio Zaluar
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2007-03-29
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Smaniotto, Edgar Indalecio [UNESP]
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
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Este trabalho trata do conceito do outro enquanto um termo antropológico. Seu principal objetivo é mostrar a absorção e uso deste conceito na obra O Dr. Benignus de Augusto Emílio Zaluar (1826-1882) num momento em que a repercussão do pensamento europeu era absolvida por escritores e intelectuais brasileiros no século XIX, especialmente a daquele pensamento que trata da ciência das diferenças entre os homens, isto é, do outro, do alienígena. Analisando a obra O Dr. Benignus, observamos as formas distintas com que o conceito do outro foi interpretado pelo escritor brasileiro. Pelo menos três formas diferentes foram encontradas na obra para representar o conceito do outro: a experiência do personagem William River antropólogo que não consegue sair do mundo do outro; a defesa de uma teoria monogenista autoctonista que assimila o nativo americano ao mito do Brasil como país onde a humanidade teve sua origem tornando este outro parte da cultura dominante; e a representação do outro civilizado no personagem do alienígena. Através da revisão da literatura especializada, seja em antropologia, história da ciência ou ficção, apresentamos uma reconstrução histórica do pensamento de Augusto Emílio Zaluar, delimitando seu papel na divulgação da nascente ciência das diferenças entre os homens e dos usos que ele dá ao conceito antropológico do outro . Para além de uma discussão no campo da história da ciência das diferenças entre os homens, nossa análise nos levou a tecer uma linha entre a representação do outro que Zaluar faz na forma com que apresenta o alienígena como personagem de sua ficção, e a forma com que este ainda permanece como um mito cultural na ficção científica brasileira moderna, identificando tanto a continuidade quanto a superação da forma com que o outro é representado na literatura brasileira, sempre pela perspectiva da antropologia.
This paper discusses the concept of other as an anthropological term. Its main objective is to show the assimilation and the use of this concept in O Dr. Benignus by Augusto Emílio Zaluar (1826-1882) in times when the repercussion of European thoughts was absorbed by Brazilian writers and intellectuals in the 19th century, specially the thought about de science of difference between men, i.e. the other, the alien. Analyzing the book O Dr. Benignus, we could observe the distinct forms that the Brazilian writer interpreted the concept of other. At least three different forms were found in the book to represent the concept of other: the experience of William River's character, the anthropologist, who can't leave the other's world; the defense of a autochthonist monogenist theory that assimilates the Native American to the myth of Brazil as a country where humanity had its origin, turning this other a part of the dominating culture; and the representation of the civilized other in the alien character. Through the review of specialized literature, be it in anthropology, science history or fiction, we present a historical reconstruction of the thought of Augusto Emílio Zaluar, delimiting his role in the disclosure of the beginning science of the differences between men and how they use the anthropological concept of other. To go beyond the discussion of the differences between men in the History of Science, our analysis made us draw a line from Zaluar's representation of other as in how he presents the alien as a character in his fiction to the form as it continues to be a cultural myth in modern Brazilian science fiction, identifying the continuity as well as the overcoming of the form the other is represented in the Brazilian literature, always in the anthropology perspective.
This paper discusses the concept of other as an anthropological term. Its main objective is to show the assimilation and the use of this concept in O Dr. Benignus by Augusto Emílio Zaluar (1826-1882) in times when the repercussion of European thoughts was absorbed by Brazilian writers and intellectuals in the 19th century, specially the thought about de science of difference between men, i.e. the other, the alien. Analyzing the book O Dr. Benignus, we could observe the distinct forms that the Brazilian writer interpreted the concept of other. At least three different forms were found in the book to represent the concept of other: the experience of William River's character, the anthropologist, who can't leave the other's world; the defense of a autochthonist monogenist theory that assimilates the Native American to the myth of Brazil as a country where humanity had its origin, turning this other a part of the dominating culture; and the representation of the civilized other in the alien character. Through the review of specialized literature, be it in anthropology, science history or fiction, we present a historical reconstruction of the thought of Augusto Emílio Zaluar, delimiting his role in the disclosure of the beginning science of the differences between men and how they use the anthropological concept of other. To go beyond the discussion of the differences between men in the History of Science, our analysis made us draw a line from Zaluar's representation of other as in how he presents the alien as a character in his fiction to the form as it continues to be a cultural myth in modern Brazilian science fiction, identifying the continuity as well as the overcoming of the form the other is represented in the Brazilian literature, always in the anthropology perspective.
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Zaluar, Augusto Emílio, 1825-1882 - Crítica e interpretação, Antropologia, Monogenismo, Homem - Origem, Anthropology, Monogenism, Science fiction, Myth, Culture, Other
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SMANIOTTO, Edgar Indalecio. Uma análise do conceito antropológico do outro na obra do escritor Augusto Emílio Zaluar. 2007. 143 f. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências, 2007.