An ethnography of gallantry in the fields of fiction: elective affinities between anthropology and literature
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https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2014.87764Keywords:
Anthropology and literature, ethnography, social discourse, subjectivity, courtship, 19th century, A Moreninha (1844).Abstract
his article’s main objective is to discuss some of the affinities between anthropology and literature. In order to do so, we bring to light the novel A Moreninha (1844), written by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, aiming to show how certain literary works can be read beyond their fictional aspect as ethnographies of social life. This love story talks not only about the romantic ideals of a young couple. It also offers to its readers a dynamic framework in which it is possible to identify the tensions, disputes and shared values about marriage by a select group of young men and women coming from Imperial-era Brazil’s urban elite. Finally, this article also elucidates the way some anthropologists have borrowed literary narrative to recognize in the fieldwork-based monographs a subjective discourse about reality.
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