“No género de construções cafreais”: o hospital-palhota como projecto colonial

Bastos, Cristiana

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“…17 Ver M. Santos Pereira, "Construções de estilo caracul: como construir economicamente casas circulares com tetos de tijolo", Arquivo do Instituto Português de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento (IPAD 16195), 1958. Cristiana Bastos explora neste mesmo dossiê da Etnográfica o conceito de mimese através da arquitectura dos hospitais-cubata (Bastos 2014). tetos dos redondéis, do tradicional colmo por tijolos e cimento, aplicados estes em fiadas concêntricas cada vez mais apertadas, e para a construção dos quais "não se carecia de ferro, de suportes, de armações ou de moldes".…”

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Colonial mimesis and animal reproduction: Karakul sheep in Southwestern Angola

Saraiva¹

2014

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Este texto explora a relação entre reprodução de colonos portugueses e reprodução de carneiros caracul no Sul de Angola. Segue-se a pista dos caraculos, desde o Sudoeste Africano sob ocupação alemã até ao deserto de Moçâmedes, usando-se o conceito de mimese para dar conta de práticas coloniais do Terceiro Império. O Posto Experimental do Caracul (PEC), fundado em 1948, serve como local de prova de tais práticas, combinando num mesmo espaço experiências de inseminação artificial de carneiros com outras mais inesperadas de sociabilidade colonial, como a organização de um "bairro indígena", a reproduzir por toda a região, que imitava uma onganda de kuvales, bem como uma casa-modelo de colono. A apropriação por Gilberto Freyre do caracul como corporização do luso-tropicalismo contribui para fazer deste carneiro um objeto de investigação privilegiado para pensar a natureza do colonialismo português.

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Colonial mimesis and animal reproduction: Karakul sheep in Southwestern Angola

Saraiva¹

2014

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“…11 Class and the power dynamics that surround it in relation to medicine and colonialism, however, continue to be understudied aspects; 12 this is certainly the case in Lusophone contexts. Although there is an increasing body of work on early twentieth-century Portuguese colonial and tropical medicine, 13 on medical practices in Brazil, Portuguese-speaking Africa and the East, 14 and, on the interface between European and local medical knowledges in Mozambique and Angola, 15 work on medicine in the colonies is under-developed. 16 There has been almost no work on the history of medicine and health in relation to Portuguese-speaking labor organizations.…”

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The Politics of Health in the Lusophone Libertarian Movement: Portugal and Mozambique, 1910–1935

Cleminson

2024

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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Significant advances in the study of the historic labor movement have entailed new work on the intersection between political parties, trade unions and subjects such as ‘race’, colonialism, sexuality, masculinity, and the reception of scientific ideas. The intersections between the labor movement and the politics of health, however, have been neglected to date both in labor studies and in social studies of health care and provision. This article builds on my on-going research into the dynamics of the Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) labor movement in the form of anarchism and syndicalism and explores, specifically, the reception of ideas on health and the attainment of healthy working conditions and lifestyles as a central aim of these working-class movements. This study examines, among other aspects, the reception of ideas on nutrition, medical care, the provision of hospitals, the responsibility of medical professionals, sexual health, the consumption of alcohol and the provision of quality housing for workers within a framework that critiqued capitalism and the state and the relations they fostered. A further dimension is incorporated into this study. This is the colonial dynamic at play between Portugal and its colonies, in this case Mozambique. What were the relations between the Portuguese syndicalist movement and the emerging trade union movement in Mozambique? To what degree did concerns in Portugal over issues of health find resonance in this African colony's labor movement? To what degree was the largely white labor movement in Mozambique attuned to local knowledge on health and racial issues surrounding health? What specific aspects of health and medicine were broached in the colony and how did these interact with an anticolonial critique and discourses and practices of ‘tropical medicine’? This study, through a detailed analysis of a range of libertarian periodicals in Portugal and Mozambique during the movement’s period of maximum influence provides responses to these questions and makes a contribution to transnational research on labour movements through the interconnecting linguistic and class dynamics of the Lusophone world.

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Mimesis and Colonialism: Emerging Perspectives on a Shared History

Roque

2015

History Compass

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Mimesis is an important human faculty and a fertile concept in Western intellectual traditions. Colonialism is a critical and lasting event in the history of European societies and their relationship with the wider world. This essay examines the significance of telling the shared history between these two phenomena. It surveys historical and anthropological literature that explores mimesis, imitation and mimicry as concepts and as practices in the history of European colonial and imperial expansionism, across three connected themes: indigenous resistance and anti‐colonialism; the making of identity and alterity in colonial encounters and post‐colonial relationships; and, finally, the presence of mimesis as theory and practice of empire‐building and colonization.

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“No género de construções cafreais”: o hospital-palhota como projecto colonial

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Colonial mimesis and animal reproduction: Karakul sheep in Southwestern Angola

Colonial mimesis and animal reproduction: Karakul sheep in Southwestern Angola

The Politics of Health in the Lusophone Libertarian Movement: Portugal and Mozambique, 1910–1935

Mimesis and Colonialism: Emerging Perspectives on a Shared History

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