Relações conjugais e amorosas em Vigia, Pará: códigos, crime e poder (1890-1945)

Abstract

The processes crimes of injuries and deflowerings are our main sources for understanding how men and women handled codes and marital and loving representations in their everyday practices between the years 1890-1945 in the city of Vigia / PA. We seek to understand how they updated the speeches of these practices related to affections in terms of negotiation and violence. We speak of appropriations and uses of representations and codes of farmers, agricultural women, housewives, fishermen, lawyers, delegates 'artists' and writers of newspapers who lived in the municipality. In this sense, we defend the thesis that, beyond dichotomies, we understand the narratives around relationships placing images of male and female social practices considered legitimate and illicit activated in police and judicial environment to deal with their experiences in daily life. Among the houses, fields, streams, backyards and city streets, the protagonists of these stories had multiple discourses, plots and maneuvers around issues such as masculinity, femininity, love, marriage, dating, honor, intimacy and housing. The various voices and situations would not come to light without us to do analysis and comparisons within and outside of each criminal case in order to reach routes between the micro and macro analysis. Newspapers enabled us to hear the official speeches and the Church about the female and male; government messages given in the wake of legal and economic aspects of the city; the population data taken from the census and civil and parish records of marriage allowed a trend of viewing relationships as age and affiliation. Vigia did not have an upgrade or steep urban transformation that might decisively influence the behavior changes and relationships, ways of survival and the homes, but not so have the men and the women of this city given up living and expressing feelings experienced by residents of large cities considered places of spreading “good and bad” habits.