From the 16th to the 18th centuries, the term pariah, coined by Western travelers, imperial officials or missionaries to designate the abjection of the outcasts in India, circulated in Portuguese, English, French, German and Dutch literati circles. In the discourse of Enlightenment - and throughout the 19th century - it acquires a new meaning, related to the increasingly pejorative connotation of "caste". The metaphor of the "pariah" provides thus an idiom of the critique of arbitrary authority and the persisting social and political exclusion. Thanks to the literature, theater, and opera, it enters the European literary and plebeian public spaces, giving a name to the modern invisible hierarchies, and denouncing the dehumanizing constructi...
Este é o Capítulo XVI do meu livro A Marcha dos Abismos. A Dupla Tragédia da Utopia, que ainda não p...
The aesthetic value of textiles, ceramics and furniture from Asia became a popular study subject in ...
A descoberta da rota circular em volta do Cabo da Boa Espe-rança em 1498 marcou o princípio da éra d...
The long process of “invention of Hinduism” to early-modern European audiences (which was to be comp...
SINCE THE FIRST voyage along the Amazonas river in 1541-1542, the European colonizer writes about th...
This article deals with the transformation of the statute of indigenous chieftainships which occurre...
A journey to the East motivated vast and rich literature during the 16th century. However, if on one...
Nas interpretações da evolução dos PALOPs, muitas vezes o que foi feito, em particular por académico...
In the Garden of Flowers, a peripheral district of a city of the interior of São Paulo, people inter...
Após quase cinqüenta anos de Estudos Pós-coloniais na Literatura e sua consolidação no mundo acadêmi...
The late emergence of ethnoscenology in the field of anthropology of aesthetics is significant. The ...
The translation of texts into american, african and asiatic languages, in the XVIth and XVIIth centu...
UID/HIS/04311/2019 UID/HIS/04666/2019Neste ensaio, o autor apresenta um panorama historiográfico dos...
Os debates acerca da condição humana do índio, que no século XVI dividiram os pensadores europeus, f...
The Galileo Case has as its backdrop the reformation and its implications on the role of the Cathol...
Este é o Capítulo XVI do meu livro A Marcha dos Abismos. A Dupla Tragédia da Utopia, que ainda não p...
The aesthetic value of textiles, ceramics and furniture from Asia became a popular study subject in ...
A descoberta da rota circular em volta do Cabo da Boa Espe-rança em 1498 marcou o princípio da éra d...
The long process of “invention of Hinduism” to early-modern European audiences (which was to be comp...
SINCE THE FIRST voyage along the Amazonas river in 1541-1542, the European colonizer writes about th...
This article deals with the transformation of the statute of indigenous chieftainships which occurre...
A journey to the East motivated vast and rich literature during the 16th century. However, if on one...
Nas interpretações da evolução dos PALOPs, muitas vezes o que foi feito, em particular por académico...
In the Garden of Flowers, a peripheral district of a city of the interior of São Paulo, people inter...
Após quase cinqüenta anos de Estudos Pós-coloniais na Literatura e sua consolidação no mundo acadêmi...
The late emergence of ethnoscenology in the field of anthropology of aesthetics is significant. The ...
The translation of texts into american, african and asiatic languages, in the XVIth and XVIIth centu...
UID/HIS/04311/2019 UID/HIS/04666/2019Neste ensaio, o autor apresenta um panorama historiográfico dos...
Os debates acerca da condição humana do índio, que no século XVI dividiram os pensadores europeus, f...
The Galileo Case has as its backdrop the reformation and its implications on the role of the Cathol...
Este é o Capítulo XVI do meu livro A Marcha dos Abismos. A Dupla Tragédia da Utopia, que ainda não p...
The aesthetic value of textiles, ceramics and furniture from Asia became a popular study subject in ...
A descoberta da rota circular em volta do Cabo da Boa Espe-rança em 1498 marcou o princípio da éra d...