sexta-feira, 11 de maio de 2012

"Habitus" in wildness: gender, economy and clothing culture in São Paulo (1554-c.1650). Igor Renato M. de Lima. PHD. Abstract


ABSTRACT

The objective of this thesis is to address the transformation of gender relations, economics and culture in clothing Colonial village of St. Paul during the years 1554 to 1650. Through analysis of the artifacts found in the sartorial discourse of the colonial writers, jesuit’s letters, minutes council dwellings, wills and inventories post mortem were sewn by the gernder perspective. It was, therefore, make an approach to the concepts of gender, clothing, fashion and habitus.
In a society moving male and female in residence, women as well as manor care of the clothing, set out the foundations of a slave society and economy, to adminstration of household. At the domestic economy, were economy of cotton, made ​​in the first half of the seventeenth century through the work of the ladies and captives. By the second half of XVII Century, cotton crops and the work of spinning and weaving had new contours with the advancement of trade between the coast and hinterland.
Moreover, the relations of specific powers - governance of the land - and the distinction, the differences and gender hierarchies and slavery, with consumption of luxury jewelry and clothes, in this border area and contact between indigenous and colonial.

Keywords: Gender –– Clothing – Textiles – Economic of Cotton – São Paulo Colonial

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