L’objet de cette étude est de réexaminer l’histoire de la famille de gouverneurs perses qui ont détenu l’office de satrapes de Phrygie Hellespontique sous l’Empire achéménide aux Ve et IVe siècles avant J.-C., et d’évaluer leur influence sur la sphère politique égéenne et anatolienne. Étant donné que l’étude des Pharnacides n’est pas seulement une étude généalogique, mais qu’elle comporte des questions d’ordre politique, il nous faut distinguer leur rôle de satrapes de l’histoire de leur famille. Nous traitons donc dans un premier temps les origines des Pharnacides. Ensuite, nous présentons une chronologie des satrapes de Daskyleion, traités sous l’angle politique. En troisième partie, il est question de mettre en avant les caractéristiques des détenteurs de l’office satrapique de Daskyleion. Enfin, la dernière partie a pour but de présenter ce que nous avons pu déduire sur la notion de famille chez ces notables perses et de mettre en avant la place des femmes, tout en présentant un épilogue de leur destin après la chute de l’Empire achéménide. / The purpose of this study is to reexamine the existence of the family of Persian governors, who were in charge as satraps of Hellespontic Phrygia in the age of the Achaemenid Empire in the Vth-IVth C. BC. and to assess their influence on Egean and Anatolian politics. As the examination of the Pharnacids is not only a genealogical study, but includes also political topics, it is necessary to distinguish their role as satraps from their family history. Accordingly, the first part addresses the origins of the Pharnacids, followed by a chronology of the satraps of Dasykleion from a political point of view. The third part exposes the permanent and recurrent features among the titleholders of the satrapy of Daskyleion. Finally, the last part presents our conclusions on the notion of family among the prominent Persians and focuses on the role of women, and it ends with an epilogue on the family’s fate after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire.

La présente thèse se propose de répertorier et d’analyser les références au classicisme français et le rôle qu’il a joué dans la critique littéraire roumaine, depuis la Révolution de Tudor Vladimirescu (1821) jusqu’à la chute du régime communiste (1989). Après avoir replacé la réception du modèle dans le cadre de l’histoire de la Roumanie et de ses relations politiques et intellectuelles avec la France (notamment par une étude de la traduction des classiques français en langue roumaine) et après une analyse généalogique et esthétique du concept de « classicisme français », on s’est efforcé de restituer, dans le contexte de chaque grande époque de la modernité roumaine, puis, pour chacune de ces périodes, à travers l’étude plus spécifique de quelques écrivains et critiques choisis comme les plus représentatifs en cette matière, la persistance et le renouvellement de l’image du classicisme français, lui-même fréquemment perçu et analysé comme l’expression nationale d’un classicisme « universel ». Ce cheminement chronologique a permis de dégager les trois usages majeurs que la critique roumaine a faits de la référence à cette notion : celui de modèle pour une création littéraire qui se cherchait, celui de critère pour son évaluation et celui d’enjeu dans le cadre des débats suscités par les courants nouveaux qui auront animé la vie littéraire roumaine depuis son émergence jusqu’à la presque fin du XXe siècle. / The present thesis proposes to catalogue and analyze references to French classicism and the role it has played in the Romanian literary criticism, from the Wallachian Uprising of 1821, led by Tudor Vladimirescu, to the fall of the communist regime (1989). After placing the reception of the model in the context of the history of Romania and its political and intellectual relations with France (including a study of the translation of French classics in Romanian) and after a genealogical and aesthetic analysis of the "French classicism" concept, we tried to reconstruct, in the context of each period of Romanian modernity, and, for each of these periods, through the more specific study of certain writers and critics considered the most representative in this matter, the persistence and renewal of the image of French classicism, itself frequently perceived and analyzed as the national expression of a "universal" classicism. This chronological process made it possible to identify the three manners in which the Romanian criticism used the reference to this notion: that of a model for a literary creation that sought itself, that of criterion for its evaluation and that of subject within the framework of debates aroused by the new currents that have animated the Romanian literary life since its emergence until the end of the twentieth century.

Il est possible d'isoler, parmi les tentatives de définition du vivant, deux traditions concurrentes : l'une a fait de la reproduction le propre du vivant, tandis que l'autre a vu dans la nutrition puis le métabolisme (le processus matériel par lequel un organisme se maintient en transformant une matière étrangère en substance vivante) une propriété essentielle et un critère d'unification de toutes les formes vivantes. Or, le second terme de cette polarité se subdivise à son tour en un mouvement permanent d'oppositions qui semble caractériser la vie comme « tourbillon » incessant, circulation ininterrompue ou flux constant de matière entre l'intérieur et l'extérieur, les corps et leur environnement. C’est à explorer les mutations conceptuelles internes à cette seconde tradition, la nutrition et le métabolisme, que le présent travail est consacré. Comment le métabolisme s'est-il constitué en problème pour la biologie ? Cette thèse propose une analyse généalogique du concept de métabolisme compris à la fois comme pont reliant la spécificité vitale des organismes à leur.; conditions chimiques d'existence, et comme schème à travers lequel l'autoproduction et le maintien de l'identité biologique ont pu être appréhendés dans une perspective naturaliste. Cette thèse propose une histoire des développements d'une théorie matérielle, chimique, de la vie, et montre, dans le même mouvement, comment l'élaboration d'un « espace épistémique » autour du concept de métabolisme a progressivement permis de redéfinir les contours sous lesquels la question de l'identité biologique été saisie depuis. / It is possible to isolate, among the attempts to define living organisms, two competing traditions: one has made reproduction the proper of living organisms, while the other has seen in nutrition and then metabolism (the material process by which an organism maintains itself by transforming a foreign matter into a living substance) an essential property and a criterion for the unification of ail living forms. However, the second term of this polarity is in tum subdivided into a pem1anent movement of oppositions that seems to characterize life as an incessant "whirlwind", an uninterrupted circulation or constant flow of matter between the inside and the outside, the bodies and their environment. This work is devoted to exploring the conceptual changes within this second tradition, nutrition and metabolism. How did metabolism become a problem for biology? This thesis proposes a genealogical analysis of the concept of metabolism understood both as a bridge linking the vital specificity of organisms to their chemical conditions of existence, and as a scheme through which self-production and the maintenance of biological identity could be approached from a naturalistic perspective. This thesis proposes a history of the developments of a material, chemical and life theory and shows, in the same movement, how the elaboration of an "epistemic space" around the concept of metabolism has gradually made it possible to redefine the contours under which the question of biological identity has since been addressed.

O filme documentário foi utilizado, desde seus primórdios, para representar a alteridade, as diferenças de modos de vida, cultura e pensamento. Documentaristas produziram com base em modos de trabalho variados e, dentre eles, sempre houve discussões sobre a (im)possibilidade da representação da alteridade em filmes. Nesta pesquisa, utilizamos o conceito da \"voz do documentário\", de Bill Nichols, para pensar sobre modos de representação da voz de Outros dentro da voz do documentário. Alargamos seu entendimento para analisar tanto modos de produção quanto de recepção em que a representação pelo documentário possa ser concebida e praticada como forma de ação pela melhoria da vida de Outros sujeitos filmados. A leitura do conceito de \"voz\" se deu pelas contribuições do campo da linguagem, da cultura e do cinema enquanto discurso, uma leitura baseada nos legados do pensamento crítico trazidos pelo pós-colonialismo, pós-estruturalismo, estudos culturais, feminismo e pela genealogia proposta por Michel Foucault, como abordagem metodológica. Por ser um trabalho genealógico, esta pesquisa buscou evidenciar discursos dominantes e seus Outros: discursos subalternos sobre o Outro, discursos do Outro como alteridade, discursos que são Outro dos dominantes. Nosso foco na questão da dominância priorizou os discursos produzidos por documentaristas e pensadores do documentário brasileiros, embora não tenha se limitado a eles. Os resultados indicam que há um discurso dominante no Brasil sobre a voz do Outro na voz do documentário, que é o da impossibilidade da representação dessas vozes no que elas trazem de intencionalidades para o mundo vivido. Por outro lado, encontramos pelos discursos dos filmes documentários a subalternidade na prática do documentário como intervenção direta no mundo, realizando a ressonância da voz de Outros. Indicamos que tem ocorrido uma reversão nesse sentido, pela qual a ética do documentário pode ser repensada por meio de relações entre cineastas, Outros sujeitos filmados e públicos, em que os efeitos dos filmes documentários no mundo são valorizados de maneira diferente do que na ética dominante presente, em quem o Outro é, comumente, apenas personagem de filmes. A pesquisa levanta questões teóricas e práticas para pensar filmes documentários que visem representar a voz do Outro na voz do documentário com vistas a intervir para a melhoria das condições de vida de Outros sujeitos filmados e suas comunidades. / From its beginnings the documentary film was used to represent alterity, the differences in ways of life, culture and thought. Documentary filmmakers developed multiple modes of work and within these there have always been discussions about the (im)possibility of the representation of alterity in films. In this research, we use Bill Nichols\' concept of the \"voice of the documentary\" to reflect on ways of representing the voice of Others within the voice of the documentary. We extend such concept to analyze both the modes of production and reception by which representation in the documentary can be understood and practiced as a form of action for the improvement the lives of Other filmed subjects. Our understanding of the concept of \"voice\" comes from the contributions of the field study of language, culture and cinema as discourse, a perspective based on the legacies of critical thinking brought about by postcolonialism, poststructuralism, cultural studies, feminism and genealogy in consonance with what is proposed by Michel Foucault, as a methodological approach. Intended as a genealogical work, this research sought to highlight dominant discourses and their Other subaltern discourses considering both the Other as otherness and discourses that are Another of the dominant. Our focus on the dominance issue prioritizes the discourses produced by Brazilian documentary filmmakers and theorists of documentary, though not limited to them. The results indicate that there is a dominant discourse in Brazil about the voice of the Other in the voice of the documentary that is of the impossibility of the representation of these voices as they bring intentionalities toward the lived world. On the other hand, we found in the discourses on documentary film the subalternity of the practice of the documentary as a direct intervention in the world, including the resonance of the voice of Others. We point out that a reversion must be taking place in this direction, as the documentary ethics is reviewed in the relations among filmmakers, other filmed subjects, and public, by which the effects of documentary films in the world will be differently valued than they are today in the present dominant ethic where the Other is just a movie character. The research raises theoretical and practical questions about documentary films aiming to represent the voice of Others in the voice of documentary with a will to intervene and improve the living conditions of Other filmed subjects and their communities.

[pt] O presente estudo tem como objetivo realizar uma análise genealógica do discurso oficial sobre drogas no Rio de Janeiro, a partir do realinhamento da Política Nacional Antidrogas parentese PNAD barra2002 parentese e da inserção do Conselho Estadual Antidrogas parenteseCEAD prentese na estrutura da Secretaria de Estado de Assistência Social e Direitos Humanos parentese SEASDH prentese. Tendo por base a teoria foucaultiana sobre poder barra saber, realizamos uma pesquisa documental no acervo do CEAD sob a ótica das seguintes análises: a construção do discurso sobre drogas e sua inserção em regimes de verdade; a formulação do discurso sobre drogas em território brasileiro e o processo de aproximação, no Rio de Janeiro, entre a SEASDH e o realinhamento da PNAD barra 2002. As conclusões apontam para a manutenção de diversos elementos do caráter antidrogas no discurso oficial brasileiro e para um descompasso entre a política nacional e a estadual, que passa por processo de adequação aos preceitos de Política Pública estabelecidos pela Constituição Federal de 1988. / [en] The present study aims to conduct a genealogical analysis of official discourse on drugs in Rio de Janeiro, from the realignment of National Anti-Drug Policy PNAD/2002 and the insertion of the State Council Anti-Drug CEAD in the structure of the Secretariat of State Social Welfare and Human Rights SEASDH. Based on the Foucault´s theory - power / knowledge - conducted documentary research in the archives of CEAD with the following analytical perspectives: the construction of discourse about drugs and their inclusion in systems of truth; formulation of discourse about drugs in Brazil and in the process approach, in Rio de Janeiro, between SEASDH and realignment of PNAD/2002. The conclusions point to the maintenance of various elements of the official Brazilian anti-drug discourse and a mismatch between National and state politics, which undergoes a process of adaptation to the precepts of Public Policy established by the Constitution of 1988.

Le rôle de l'entreprise dans la société connaît ces dernières années une évolution considérable qui s'est manifestée par son engagement dans des actions sociales et environnementales qui sont normalement assurées par l'État-nation. Ces actions redéfinissent les frontières entre la sphère publique et la sphère privée et renvoient à l'émergence d'une conception politique de la RSE. L'objectif de cette thèse est de montrer l'apport du cadre de la gouvernementalité de Michel Foucault pour l'étude des conditions d'émergence de cette nouvelle conception de la RSE et des effets de pouvoir qui lui sont associés. Nous développons une recherche qualitative et abductive s'inscrivant dans une démarche d'analyse généalogique. L'étude de cas Shell Tunisie a été fondée sur des entretiens semi-directifs avec 52 de ses cadres et partenaires sociaux et avec 23 représentants de ses parties prenantes et sur l'analyse de ses rapports sociaux et d'autres documents d'entreprise. L'analyse du discours effectuée grâce au logiciel d'analyse qualitative Nvivo 8 a fait ressortir trois principaux résultats. Nous avons tout d'abord mis en exergue différentes conditions sectorielles, institutionnelles, organisationnelles et discrétionnaires qui ont fondé l'émergence d'une conception politique de la RSE. Nous avons ensuite montré que des motivations économiques et politiques expliquent en majeure partie la politisation de Shell Tunisie. Nous avons enfin mis au jour les effets de pouvoir-savoir qui sont associés à cette politisation en termes de développement de nouveaux objets, formes et techniques de gouvernement. / The past decade has been marked by a growing involvement of transnational corporations in activities that are more akin to functions normally given over the Nation-state. These activities reveal the emergence of a political conception of CSR which confers a political role to business firms in a globalized society. The aim of this dissertation is to discuss the relevance of the governementality framework developed by Michel Foucault to the study of the emergence of a political conception of CSR and its effects in terms of power dynamics. We design a qualitative and abductive research drawing on a genealogical perspective. The Shell Tunisia case study is based on in-depth interviews with 52 of its senior managers and 23 of its stakeholder's representatives. The discourse analysis made by the qualitative data analysis software Nvivo 8 has shown three main results. First, we identified various sector-based, institutional, organizational and discretionary conditions which underlie the emergence of a political conception of CSR. We then showed that economic and political motivations largely explain firm's politicization. Finally, we highlighted that this politicization constitutes a new governementality regime of the business and society interface that was supported by the formation of new objetcs, forms and techniques of government.

La notion d'eschatologie est originellement théologique : elle est pourtant réinvestie par la philosophie contemporaine chez Heidegger, puis par la philosophie française chez Levinas et Derrida. Quelles sont ainsi les conditions de possibilité, la spécificité philosophique et l'opérativité spéculative de ce réinvestissement ? L'étude généalogique de l'eschatologie, chez Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche et Heidegger, révèle que l'eschatologie ne peut être mobilisée en philosophie qu’à condition d’être préalablement dissociée de la téléologie, de la théologie et de l'ontologie. Elle est alors convoquée chez Levinas et Derrida en dialogue avec le messianisme et la phénoménologie pour former un motif original, aussi bien élément constituant que moteur philosophique. L’eschatologie lévinasso-derridienne devient un schème éthique, sans contenu ontique et radicalement anti-ontologique, qui consiste à interrompre le présent et la présence : une eschatologie du présent. L’eschatologie du présent constitue ainsi une triple problématisation de la limite : elle éclate les limites entre les circonscriptions disciplinaires (théologie et philosophie) ; marque la limite (c'est-à-dire la défaillance) du logos ; et brise la limite (l'horizon) de l'histoire pour proposer une pensée éthique de l'événement. / The concept of eschatology originally comes from theology: it is however summoned by contemporary philosophers, first by Heidegger then by Levinas and Derrida. What are the conditions of possibility of this philosophical gesture? How is it specifically philosophical? And what are its operativity and consequences? The genealogical study of eschatology in Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger’s philosophy reveals that eschatology can only be used in philosophy if it is first dissociated from teleology, theology and ontology. It then becomes an original motive (both a pattern and a philosophical driving force) in Levinas and Derrida’s philosophy, in dialog with Jewish messianism and phenomenology. As an ethical and contentless principle, radically anti-ontological, it consists in interrupting presence (both time and essence): an eschatology of the present. It thus constitutes a triple problematization of limit: it bursts limits between disciplines (theology and philosophy); its sets logos’ limitation (its failure); and shatters the historical limit (horizon) to create and ethical conception of the event.

Orientador: Maurício Mello de Alencar / Coorientador: Roberto Augusto de Almeida Torres Júnior / Banca: Cintia Righetti Marcondes / Banca: Maria Eugênia Zerlotti Mercadante / Banca: Henrique Nunes de Oliveira / Banca: Fernando Sebastian Baldi Rey / Resumo: A utilização de animais como reprodutores em programas de melhoramento genético de bovinos está associada ao registro genealógico pela Associação de Criadores. O objetivo neste trabalho foi avaliar e relacionar a aprovação dos animais ao registro genealógico definitivo com as características avaliadas no programa de avaliação genética da raça Canchim. Foram estimados parâmetros genéticos, por meio de modelo multicaracterística, para os pesos ao nascimento, ao desmame e ao sobreano, escores para conformação frigorífica ao desmame e ao sobreano, classificação final no registro ao desmame (CLD) e ao sobreano (CLS), escores para comprimento de umbigo e qualidade do pelo (PEL) avaliados ao desmame, e perímetro escrotal ao sobreano (PE), e por modelos bicaracterística para aprovação ao registro genealógico (AP) com cada uma das demais variáveis. A relação entre classificação final e as outras características avaliadas foi desdobrada pela análise de trilha para estimar efeitos diretos e indiretos. A probabilidade de aprovação ao registro genealógico foi estudada, as diferenças esperadas na progênie (DEP) para todas as características foram estimadas e foi elaborado o índice de qualificação genética (IQG) utilizado pelo Programa de Avaliação Genética do Canchim. Foi estimada a herdabilidade do escore de coloração da mucosa dos animais e foram obtidas as probabilidades de ocorrência de cada um dos escores de acordo com a coloração da mucosa dos pais. A probabilidade de um animal ser a... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The use of animals in beef cattle breeding programs is dependent on their approval to genealogical registry by the breeders association. The aim of this work was to evaluate and to relate the approval of the animals to the definitive genealogical record with the traits evaluated in the genetic evaluation program of the Canchim breed. Genetic parameters were estimated by means of a multi-trait model for birth, weaning and yearling (18 months of age) weights, slaughter conformation scores at weaning (CSW) and yearling (CSY), final registry classification scores at weaning (CLW) and yearling (CLY), navel and hair coat (HC) scores at weaning, and scrotal circumference at yearling (SCY), and using two-trait models for approval to registry (AR) with each of the above traits. The relationship of CLW and CLY with the other traits was studied by path analysis to estimate direct and indirect effects. Probabilities of approval to registry were studied, expected progeny differences (EPD) for all traits were estimated and a genetic qualification index (GQI) used by the Canchim Genetic Evaluation Program was obtained for each animal. Heritability was also estimated for color of the mucosa, and the probability of occurring the various color of mucosa in the offspring according to the mucosa of the parents were obtained. The probability of an animal being approved for registration by the Brazilian Canchim Breeders Association at weaning was 77.48%, 75.15% for males and 79.43% for females, while at yearling, given the approval at weaning, the probability was 87.36%, 86.43% for males and 87.83% for females. The total probability of an animal being approved for registration at yearling was 69.63%, 72.26% for females and 67.71% for males. The genetic correlations among the traits varied from low negative (-0.07) to high po... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

Esta pesquisa objetiva investigar, compreender e analisar como a tecnologia digital intervém na constituição do sentir contemporâneo, utilizando como objeto referencial as práticas sexuais realizadas por e nos ambientes digitais (sites, chats, redes sociais digitais, aplicativos etc.). Partimos de pressupostos teóricos que reconhecem a tecnologia como elemento constitutivo do humano e do social - inclusive no que diz respeito à dimensão sexual -, atribuindo-lhe, portanto, um papel central em diferentes momentos históricos. Deste modo, defendemos que o \"sexo virtual\" não se trataria de uma mera interação social mediada por dispositivos conectados à Internet, mas sim uma ecologia complexa composta, além das pessoas, por actantes não humanos com poder de agenciamento. Para alcançarmos uma argumentação coerente, adotamos um olhar genealógico para a análise de tal fenômeno, jogando luz sobre as especificidades do digital que, em nosso entendimento, ocasionariam deslocamentos perceptivos, espaço-temporais, socioculturais, identitários, subjetivos etc. apontando para um social (e um sexo) incontornavelmente conectado, hibridizado, mutante. Metodologicamente, conciliamos a leitura bibliográfica, a etnografia de cunho social e a etnografia digital imersiva, sendo esta última responsável por dar \"voz\" aos actantes não humanos contidos na experiência estudada, descoberta esta que inspirou uma construção tipológica para caracterizar os distintos processos comunicativos viabilizados pelo digital na atualidade. Nossa fundamentação teórica baseia-se em autores que defendem a tecnologia como constituinte e transformadora do sentir, que assumem as perspectivas do pós-humanismo e que reconhecem a intersecção entre tecnologia, sexo e sexualidade. / This research aims to investigate, understand and analyze how digital technology intervenes in the constitution of senses in contemporaneity, using as a reference object the sexual practices performed by and in digital architectures (websites, chatrooms, social networks and apps). We start with theoretical references that recognize technology as a constituent element of the humane and social - including the sexual dimension - and thus assign it as a central function in different historical moments. That way, we defend that \"virtual sex\" would not be a mere social interaction mediated by Internet-connected devices, but a complex ecology composed not only of people but also of non-human \"actants\" with agency power. In order to reach a coherent argument, we adopt a genealogical perspective to analyze this phenomenon, throwing light on the specificities of digital technology that, in our understanding, would cause displacements on perception and notions of space, time, social, culture, identity, subjective etc. pointing to a social (and sex) incontrovertibly connected, hybridized, mutant. Methodologically we reconcile bibliographical reading, social ethnography and immersive digital ethnography, the latter being responsible for giving \"voice\" to the non-human actants contained in the studied experience, a discovery that inspired a typological construction to characterize the different communicative processes made possible nowadays. Our theoretical foundation is based on authors who defend technology as a constituent and transforming of senses, who take on the perspectives of post-humanism and who recognize the intersection among technology, sex and sexuality.

O objetivo principal deste trabalho é pensar os termos possíveis de análise do ambiente doméstico compreendido como manifestação psico-sociocultural. Para contornar o viés etnocêntrico, a autora desfocou o estudo das \"coisas\" em um arranjo espacial denominado \"moradia\" (60 moradias em uma zona urbana paulistana) para a \"não-coisa\": a não-casa (49 \"casas\" de semcasa), o não-corpo (túmulos em cemitérios), e o não-urbano (20 casas vemaculares do interior nordestino). Desdobramentos sucessivos e complementares sugeriram matrizes virtuais semânticas organizadas, dialeticamente, em um hiper-espaço, nos seguintes termos: simbólica; corporiedade; temporalidade; poética. A aplicação destes termos aos estudos de caso de onde eles provieram deu origem aos capítulos: a casa como símbolo; como corpo; como tempo; como poesia. Cada um destes termos foi analisado tanto de um ponto de vista genético quanto genealógico. Deste método, um outro termo, a brasilidade, emergiu do cruzamento de dois tipos de cultura, a do \"corpo\" e a da \"coisa\", permitindo a percepção da brasilidade como decorrendo de uma organização societária híbrida, mestiça, multicultural, sincrética e liminar. A liminaridade como uma condição da brasilidade seria uma condição histórica do sujeito psicossocial brasileiro- que se comporta segundo elementos reprodutíveis que sugerem haver uma des-territorização em torno de uma \"mátria\", uma língua materna onde, através de um ritual transformista, conteúdos novos são continuamente incorporados e re-semantizados, através de um movimento antropofágico que permite que mudança e tradição coexistam. E\' hipotetizada uma vacuidade como mito original responsável pela liminaridade como condição sócio-historicamente (des)construída do ser-brasileiro. / This study aims to propose terms of analysis of the domestic environment seen as a psycho­ social-cultural manifestation. Three successive case studies were considered in order to bypass the ethnocentric bias. From the study of things displayed in a spatial arrangement named dwelling (60 houses in a São Paulo urban zone) there was a divergent focus to the study of non-thing: non-house (49 houses of homeless people), non-body (tombs in cemeteries) and non-city (20 houses in a Brazilian northeast rural zone). Successive, complementary and unfolding analysis suggested a virtual semantic matrix, dialecticly organized in a hyper-space, whose terms were seen to be: symbol; corporality, temporality and poelics. The application of these terms to the case studies that originated them resulted in the following chapters: the house as symbol; as body; as lime; as poetry. Each of these terms were analysed both from a genetical and a genealogical method. From this method, another term emerged called brazility. Two types of culture were depicted: the culture of things and the culture of the body, meaning two complementary sets of cultivation values and practices. From the overlapping of these two kinds of cultures, brazility was seen as a syncretical, hybrid, mestizo and multicultural societal organization, stemming from a liminal condition. This condition of liminality was supposed to be a historical condition of the psycho-social Brazilian subject, whose behaviors consistently suggested a des-territoriality around a motherland, a mother tongue, where, by a transformist ritual, new meanings were continously incorporated and re-meant through an anthropophagical movement allowing changing and tradition to coexist. It was hypothesized that liminality has originated from a vaccum as the original myth of the socio-historically (de)constructed condition of the Brazilian-being.