Entre a regra e as estratégias: uma abordagem antropológica do processo de escolha do cônjuge

Abstract

The work is a development of my monograph in which I try to analyze patterns of spouse choice in the interface between anthropological theory, ethnography and literature, with the field to analyze the interaction between individuals in the marriage process. The objective is to understand this phenomenon through the analysis of marriage records from 2376, where he studied the structure and profile of marriages that occurred in Belém, between 1995 and 2006. Seeking thus to evaluate the profiles of the spouses against the backdrop of social changes through which passed the Western societies in recent centuries, whose emergence of romantic literature, individualism as a value and different models of family arrangements, had a profound influence on the kind of choice affective-sexual individuals, and thus the ideal type of partner with whom they want / should marry. Methodologically the work is developed based on a review of anthropological literature that addresses the issue of marital school in social sciences, with emphasis on studies that support their historical and conceptual development; as well as a detailed analysis of the procedure of choice in the work of three British novelist Jane Austen ("Pride and Prejudice”, “Sense and Sensibility”, and “Emma”). It also highlights my research along the course of Groom of the Parish of Nossa Senhora de Nazaré, in Belém-PA, where I looked through the speech of its users, the experience of choice and sense of being chosen as a spouse. My proposal with this is trying to understand not only the selection profiles andspeeches about the spouse preference, but why they chose to view the conjugal union.