A história do ensino de teatro no Departamento de Arte Dramática (DAD) do Instituto de Artes (IA) da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) é o tema central da pesquisa, que busca compreender o processo de formação em teatro na referida instituição e suas transformações, tomando por base o período entre os anos de 1960 e 1973. A pesquisa é organizada em torno dos paradigmas da Nova História Cultural, abrangendo os conceitos de micro-história, história oral e memória. Através da metodologia da história oral, a pesquisa investiga a trajetória acadêmica de seis profissionais de teatro formados no CAD/DAD no período mencionado. A partir do registro de memórias e da organização de fontes históricas, como documentos oficiais e fotografias, busca-se refletir sobre o ensino de teatro e suas relações com o tempo, considerando a ação docente atravessada por diversas determinações, macro e micro contextuais de ordem histórica, social, política e cultural. O contexto histórico dos períodos apontados pelos entrevistados é analisado com a finalidade de identificar práticas e teorias que influenciaram os professores de teatro no passado e evidenciar marcas por eles legadas aos profissionais de teatro da atualidade. / The history of theater teaching in the Department of Dramatic Art (DAD) of the Art Institute (IA) of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) is the central theme of this research that seeks to understand the formation processes in theater in that institution and its transformations, from 1960 until 1973.The research is organized around the New Cultural History paradigms, including the concepts of micro-history, oral history and memory. Through the oral history methodology, the research investigates the academic trajectory of six graduated theater professionals at CAD/DAD in this period. From the recording of memories and organization of historical sources like official documents and pictures, it seeks to think about teaching theater and its links with time, considering the teaching action crossed by numerous determinations, macro and micro contextual historical, social, political and cultural order. The historical context of the periods mentioned by respondents is analyzed in order to identify practices and theories that influenced the theater of teachers in the past and show marks they bequeathed to today's theater professionals.

A história do ensino de teatro no Departamento de Arte Dramática (DAD) do Instituto de Artes (IA) da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) é o tema central da pesquisa, que busca compreender o processo de formação em teatro na referida instituição e suas transformações, tomando por base o período entre os anos de 1960 e 1973. A pesquisa é organizada em torno dos paradigmas da Nova História Cultural, abrangendo os conceitos de micro-história, história oral e memória. Através da metodologia da história oral, a pesquisa investiga a trajetória acadêmica de seis profissionais de teatro formados no CAD/DAD no período mencionado. A partir do registro de memórias e da organização de fontes históricas, como documentos oficiais e fotografias, busca-se refletir sobre o ensino de teatro e suas relações com o tempo, considerando a ação docente atravessada por diversas determinações, macro e micro contextuais de ordem histórica, social, política e cultural. O contexto histórico dos períodos apontados pelos entrevistados é analisado com a finalidade de identificar práticas e teorias que influenciaram os professores de teatro no passado e evidenciar marcas por eles legadas aos profissionais de teatro da atualidade. / The history of theater teaching in the Department of Dramatic Art (DAD) of the Art Institute (IA) of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) is the central theme of this research that seeks to understand the formation processes in theater in that institution and its transformations, from 1960 until 1973.The research is organized around the New Cultural History paradigms, including the concepts of micro-history, oral history and memory. Through the oral history methodology, the research investigates the academic trajectory of six graduated theater professionals at CAD/DAD in this period. From the recording of memories and organization of historical sources like official documents and pictures, it seeks to think about teaching theater and its links with time, considering the teaching action crossed by numerous determinations, macro and micro contextual historical, social, political and cultural order. The historical context of the periods mentioned by respondents is analyzed in order to identify practices and theories that influenced the theater of teachers in the past and show marks they bequeathed to today's theater professionals.

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A história do ensino de teatro no Departamento de Arte Dramática (DAD) do Instituto de Artes (IA) da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) é o tema central da pesquisa, que busca compreender o processo de formação em teatro na referida instituição e suas transformações, tomando por base o período entre os anos de 1960 e 1973. A pesquisa é organizada em torno dos paradigmas da Nova História Cultural, abrangendo os conceitos de micro-história, história oral e memória. Através da metodologia da história oral, a pesquisa investiga a trajetória acadêmica de seis profissionais de teatro formados no CAD/DAD no período mencionado. A partir do registro de memórias e da organização de fontes históricas, como documentos oficiais e fotografias, busca-se refletir sobre o ensino de teatro e suas relações com o tempo, considerando a ação docente atravessada por diversas determinações, macro e micro contextuais de ordem histórica, social, política e cultural. O contexto histórico dos períodos apontados pelos entrevistados é analisado com a finalidade de identificar práticas e teorias que influenciaram os professores de teatro no passado e evidenciar marcas por eles legadas aos profissionais de teatro da atualidade. / The history of theater teaching in the Department of Dramatic Art (DAD) of the Art Institute (IA) of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) is the central theme of this research that seeks to understand the formation processes in theater in that institution and its transformations, from 1960 until 1973.The research is organized around the New Cultural History paradigms, including the concepts of micro-history, oral history and memory. Through the oral history methodology, the research investigates the academic trajectory of six graduated theater professionals at CAD/DAD in this period. From the recording of memories and organization of historical sources like official documents and pictures, it seeks to think about teaching theater and its links with time, considering the teaching action crossed by numerous determinations, macro and micro contextual historical, social, political and cultural order. The historical context of the periods mentioned by respondents is analyzed in order to identify practices and theories that influenced the theater of teachers in the past and show marks they bequeathed to today's theater professionals.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-07-26T12:23:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 mariadanatividaderamalhoborba.pdf: 4587137 bytes, checksum: 3b9c53206a806bdd8e11b3474a1db540 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-27T11:28:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 mariadanatividaderamalhoborba.pdf: 4587137 bytes, checksum: 3b9c53206a806bdd8e11b3474a1db540 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-27T11:28:15Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 mariadanatividaderamalhoborba.pdf: 4587137 bytes, checksum: 3b9c53206a806bdd8e11b3474a1db540 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T11:28:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 mariadanatividaderamalhoborba.pdf: 4587137 bytes, checksum: 3b9c53206a806bdd8e11b3474a1db540 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-30 / O presente trabalho nasceu da minha necessidade em discutir o ensino artístico do Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII/UFJF, onde estudei de 1981 a 1984 e onde leciono Artes desde 1995. A pesquisa se iniciou com o objetivo de refletir sobre o currículo e sobre as práticas em Arte presentes no João XXIII. Durante o percurso, principalmente a partir do contato com os arquivos, o foco foi se deslocando para uma questão de cunho histórico. Encontrei no Arquivo do Colégio dezesseis livros contendo uma série de relatórios anuais feitos pela ex-diretora Lucy Maria Brandão. No contato com esse rico material enxerguei a possibilidade de olhar para a história geral do ensino artístico, pelas lentes de sua microhistória no João XXIII. Datados de 1978 a 1987, os relatórios tornaram-se ponto de partida e de chegada dessa investigação, gerando a seguinte pergunta de pesquisa: “Como foi se constituindo a história do ensino artístico no C. A. João XXIII entre 1978 e 1987?” Inspirada pelo pós-estruturalismo e por estudos foucaultianos, explorei a questão recorrendo aos documentos (que incluem fotos), e a relação entre memória-história, expressas nas minhas lembranças e nas narrativas colhidas durante as entrevistas. Esse trabalho reforça a importância da Arte na constituição do Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII, dando visibilidade a inúmeras práticas artísticas realizadas durante aquele período. Destaco a presença permanente da Arte na vida escolar, presença esta que se dava de forma transversal nas festas escolares, em alguns projetos e como recurso pedagógico em algumas disciplinas. Um convite a colocar em suspeita as potencialidades e desafios da Arte além da disciplina Arte, e suas articulações com a História, a Memória e os Processos de Subjetivação. / This work was borne out of my need to discuss the Arts education at “Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII / UFJF", where I studied from 1981 to 1984, and where I have taught Arts since 1995. The survey was initiated in order to reflect both on the curriculum and on practical Art Teachings in the same school. However, along the way and after time spent with the files, the focus shifted to one of a historical nature. I found sixteen books in the school archive containing a series of annual reports by former principal Lucy Maria Brandão. In studying this rich material, I saw the possibility of looking at the general history of art education through the lens of its micro-history. Dated 1978 to 1987, the reports became the point of departure and arrival of this research, generating the following research question: "How constituted was the history of artistic education in ‘CA João XXIII’ between 1978 and 1987?" This is inspired both by post-structuralism and on Foucauldian studies (exploring the issue using the documents, including pictures), and the relationship between memory-history, as expressed in my memories and narratives collected during interviews. This study reinforces the importance of art in the “Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII” constitution, giving visibility to numerous artistic practices carried out during that period. I will highlight the permanent presence of the Arts in school life that occurred across the board in the school holidays in some projects, and as a teaching resource in some subjects. I will focus on the question both the potential and challenges of Art beyond the Art discipline, and their links to the History, Memory and Subjectivity processes.

This thesis attempts to use a microhistorical and historical-anthropological approach, based on records from still existing chronicles of the parish of Bohumilice, to reconstruct the everyday life of people in this region in the time period of 1922 - 1948. On the background of great historic events and based on testimonies of individual participants from given region, a colourful tapestry of people's behaviour, actions and perception is being revealed. The thesis is divided into six chapters, in the first one the author specifies the geography, economy and development of administration in the given region, the second chapter follows with history of the centre of the parish, the village of Bohumilice, the local church and school. Chapters three to five deal with the state of chronicle writing in the region. At first a description of all still existing chronicles is given, later follows an outline of records in individual chronicles in the given time period, and finally the personalities of chroniclers are presented. In the sixth chapter the author attempts, based on chroniclers? testimonies, to reconstruct everyday life in the village, the behaviour, actions and primarily the perception of its inhabitants.

Entre 1976 et 1983, la dictature militaire argentine orchestre la disparition d’environ trente mille personnes. Son but n’est pas seulement la mort, mais l’empêchement de toute forme de différence et de toute forme de résistance chez les vivants. Dans un parcours menant d’une esquisse de la terreur à une anthropologie des possibles résistances, cette thèse confronte la recherche à l’effacement, à la déliaison puis à la possible reconstruction. Elle apparaît comme une démarche exploratoire et impliquée, aux côtés de (sur)vivants qui sont parvenus à recréer des liens de sens et des liens sociaux et donc, à refaire émerger du politique. Leurs témoignages, déclinés autour de ceux des « Mères de la Place de Mai », ont permis une résistance par les mots, par les corps et par les images à l’indicible, l’invisible et l’irreprésentable. Au fil de l’émergence d’un réseau de lutte contre l’effacement des traces et des preuves de la disparition, avec en ligne de mire les objectifs utopiques de « mémoire, vérité et justice », les résistants développent une forme de paradigme indiciaire qui n’a de cesse de rappeler à l’anthropologie l’importance des détails et des petits liens. En comprenant le social comme un théâtre, nous parvenons à appréhender diverses modalités de mise en scène de la disparition qui, toutes, révèlent l’importance cruciale de l’articulation entre l’intime et le collectif dans la reconstruction du social.Parce que les gouvernements démocratiques ont perpétué les représentations sociales qui ont rendu possible cette extermination politique, la résistance est toujours soumise à de nouvelles défiances révisionnistes. Elle est toujours renouvelée. Les questions qu’elle soulève restent, quant à elles, toujours aussi brûlantes. / From 1976 to 1983 the military dictatorship in Argentina engineered the “disappearance” of an estimated thirty thousand people. Its aim was not merely to put people to death but to eradicate all forms of diversity and every trace of resistance in the living.By sketching the reign of terror and by proposing an anthropological analysis of the different possible forms of resistance, this thesis confronts the research to effacement, dismemberment and then to the possibilities of reconstruction. It is an explorative and involved research by the side of survivors who succeeded in reconstruct sense and social relationships and have thus contributed to a political renaissance. Their testimonies - with those of the “Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo” as a heart - are resisting to what is unspeakable, impossible to see and to portray: they are based on words, on bodies and on images. A network, whose utopian motto was “memory, truth and justice”, gradually emerged to fight against the concealment of every trace of evidence of the “disappeared”. Its members developed a form of indicative paradigm which serves as a constant reminder to the anthropologist of the importance of details and minor connections.If we see society as theatre we may understand the different ways the forced disappearance was staged, which illustrate the crucial importance of the links between the intimate and the collective in social reconstruction.The resistance network is still constantly subject to revisionist suspicion, because democratic governments have maintained the social representations which made this political extermination possible. Resistance has to bee constantly re-invented. The questions this movement raises are, for their part, still a burning issue.

When war broke out in Europe in 1939 a mother of two, the thirty-three-year-old Astrid Lindgren, begun keeping a journal. In this diary she wrote about the events of the war, the decisions of the government of Sweden and her own personal life in Stockholm. With a micro historical approach and with a theoretical framework from history of emotions this study aims to explore Lindgren´s emotional life and her emotions towards the changing aspects of the ordinary life, her government´s political agenda, and towards the international players and victims of the second world war. With the use of William K. Reddy´s terminology of emotive and emotional navigation as well as Hugo Nordland´s emotional strategies as analyzing tools the results showed that Lindgren´s initial emotion towards the ordinary life, now affected by the war, was despair, expressed in emotives such as chock, sadness and despondency. The emotion later shifted to gratitude (towards her own privileged situation) and blues (caused by war fatigue), existing simultaneously. The most common emotion expressed correlating to the Swedish government is the emotion of trust. Lindgren´s main emotions towards the victims of the war was compassion. At multiples times, in her diaries, she expressed pity for those who suffered and gratitude for not being among them. The emotions she expressed correlating to the great powers of the war was hate (Germany), fear (Soviet Union) and contempt (Italy). But she also felt conflicted when faced with the fact that she might have to make a choice between Germany and the Soviet Union. The fear of the Russians trumped her loathing of the Nazi regime, but when she gained a greater knowledge of the German atrocities, she came to regard both regimes as equally horrible. The frequent use of certain emotives (such as confidence, gratitude and pity) indicates an emotional navigation to consolidate her feelings and avoid other less desirable emotions. In the same way the uses of biblical metaphors, comparisons of beasts and the reference to brotherly love gives proof of emotional strategies in her handling of undesirable feelings such as hatred and shame. Lastly, this study concludes in a didactical discussion arguing that Astrid Lindgren´s war diaries is a material of great value when teaching of and developing a historical consciousness.

The aim of the paper was to identify tendencies in the type of descriptions, categories, and identities that the doctors at the mental hospital Stockholm’s hospital gave to the mentally ill patients. The time period was chosen for a few specific reasons, one being Bror Gadelius, then chief physician at the mental hospital and his ambitions for a humanistic care of the mentally ill. The other reason is that this period has been forgotten in Swedish history of mental health care as it fell between the 18th and 19th century ‘surveillance and control’, and on the other hand a period of electrical treatments, lobotomies,and sterilisations to ‘treat’ mental illness and fix society during 1930-1950. In the paper, two theories are used to be able to discern tendencies and different attitudes from the doctors in the patient records. The first is the intersectional perspective with some main categories such as Gender, Class, Body, and Sexuality, but also smaller categories that I discovered during the research. These are somewhat abstract yet self-explanatory: Curable/Incurable, meaning whether the attitude in the records suggests that there was any chance for the patient to get well. Talking/Not talking, where the patient's ability or unwillingness to talk to the doctor changes how the patient is described, and finally Docile/Resistant, which means that the patient is described according to how they behave in accordance with the norms of the mental hospital. The second theory is about objective medicine, which developed with the natural sciences, and the need to be scientifically accurate and to be able to define what disease is, what it looks like and its dimensions. However, when objective medicine developed, it was based on a subjective basis, and therefore being ill meant being 'ugly' and not conforming to societal norms. The two theories work well together because they both highlight historically changing meanings within patients' categories and given identities. Although these are two major theories, the paper is still a micro-historical study, I wanted to get up close to the source material and thoroughly examine the different ways in which patients could be described in the mental hospital. And I believe that it is possible, even with a small study of ten patient records, to provide some nuances of how the doctors viewed the mentally ill patients in the early 20th century.

Syftet med avhandlingen är att undersöka den sammantagna livssituationen för ett begränsat urval individer (en primär kohort av 19 män och en utökad kohort av ytterligare 42 män, det vill säga totalt 61 män) i ett familjesammanhang. Det handlar närmare bestämt om att så långt källorna tillåter söka kvalitativt förstå och karaktärisera socioekonomiska villkor, familjeliv och hälsa, såsom de gestaltar sig i den vardagliga livsföringen och i relation till den specifika tiden och den lokala stadsmiljön. Gemensamt för dessa utvalda individer är att de företrädesvis tillhörde det undre samhällsskiktet och flyttade till staden under början av 1800-talet, innan inflyttningen till städerna blev fri. I denna skärningspunkt mellan individen och den yttre omgivningen undersöks såväl möjligheter som begränsningar, händelser och handlingar med ett mikrohistoriskt angreppssätt. I syftet ingår således också att gestalta själva det lokala samhället i förändring och dess förhållande till nya invånare och grupper, för att ge underlag för fortsatt forskning kring social förändring. Vidare karaktäriseras den utökade kohorten i förhållande till stadens demografiska profil. Studiens huvudmaterial utgörs av kyrkböckerna, det vill säga husförhörslängder, födelse- och dödböcker samt vigsel- och flyttlängder. Detta material kompletteras med ett flertal andra källor såsom sjukhusjournaler, saköreslängder, fattigvårdens protokoll, bouppteckningar, landshövdingens femårsberättelser, sockenstämmoprotokoll och lokala tidningar i syfte att få en så bred bild som möjligt. Individerna följs genom sina livskurser i staden under flera decennier och analyseras i nära kontakt med den lokala kontexten. Det senare innebär också en analys av de lokala auktoriteternas syn på och hantering av inflyttningsfrågan i staden under 1800-talets första hälft, det vill säga innan inflyttningen till staden, eller landsbygdens socknar, blev fri 1847. Staden var inte redo för detta arbetsfolk som valde att bo kvar där och skaffa familj. Det var ett ovanligt val, sett i förhållande till migrationsmönstret, och de gjorde det på eget bevåg, det vill säga de bosatte sig utanför husböndernas hushåll och tog därmed risken att inte få ett patriarkalt beskydd. Fattigvården tog också formellt avstånd från dessa arbetsfolkfamiljer och sökte hindra deras inträde i staden. Det visar sig i flera fall att fattigvården agerade utan lagligt stöd då de försökte fatta beslut kring inflyttning baserat på framtida försörjningsprognoser och antal barn i familjen att föda. Överhuvudtaget var dock stadens inflyttningsrestriktioner hårdare på pappret än de var i verkligheten. Relativt få fall blev ovillkorligen nekade inflyttning och de flesta som prövades individuellt fick flytta in med villkoret att de kunde visa försvar och/eller borgen. Staden var på så vis kluven inför arbetsfolket på ett sätt som tolkas som typiskt för den förändring som låg i tiden. Borgarna behövde det unga, ogifta tjänstefolket som arbetskraft men ville inte behålla det i staden när det skulle bilda familj. Männen i kohorterna, och deras familjer, behövde för sin del finna en ny plats att stadga sig på när landsbygdens möjligheter till försörjning började sina. Livet i staden blev för många av dem ett liv mitt emellan två samhällen. Det karaktäriserades, för många, av en svår försörjningssituation med inslag av en dold ekonomi men med sämre förutsättningar än på landsbygden och där till exempel tiggeriet troligen spelade en betydande roll. Det innebar ett begynnande arbetarliv men baserat på en mager lön som egentligen skulle räcka till en person, snarare än fem-sex stycken. Männens livsföring var i många fall tärande och de fick ta del av det ”urbana straffet” i form av hög dödlighet i den sena medelåldern. Nöden spred sig inom familjerna. Arbetsfolket i staden blev en länk mellan torparlivet och arbetarlivet. Många familjer bodde tillfälligt utökade och hyste släkt och familjemedlemmar utanför kärnfamiljen, vilket tolkas som ett sätt att tackla en svår situation. Genom sina livsval medverkade dessa individer till en betydande social förändring. / The purpose of the dissertation is to investigate the overall living situation for a selected group of individuals(one primary cohort of 19 men and one extended cohort of another 42 men, i.e. a total of 61 men) in a familycontext. This means, as far as the sources allow, trying to qualitatively understand and characterise socioeconomicconditions, family life and health, as it appears in the everyday life and in relation to the specifictime and the local urban environment. These individuals mainly belong to the lower social strata and havemoved to Linköping in the early 19th century before the regulations made it free to move into town. Possibilitiesand limitations, as well as events and acts are investigated in the intersection between individual and theenvironment, from a micro-historical point of view. In the purpose is thus also included to picture the localsociety in change and its relation to newcomers, as a foundation for further research regarding social change.Furthermore, the extended cohort is characterised from a micro-demographic perspective. The basic sources for this study are church books, i.e. records of catechetical meetings, records of births and deaths, records of weddings and migration. These sources are completed by several other sources like hospital records, records of fines, the chronicles of the county governor, records of the parish assembly and poor relief committee and the local newspapers, to get as rich a picture as possible. The individuals are followed throughout their life courses in town for several decades and are analysed in close connection to the local context. The latter also means that the local authorities are analysed in regard to their attitude and policy towards the migrants to town during the first half of the 19th century, i.e. before the 1847 legislation made migration free in the country. The town was not yet ready for these labourers who chose to stay there and start a family. They did thison their own responsibility, i.e. they settled outside the master´s household and risked being without thepatriarchal protection. The poor relief committee in town also rejected these families and tried to prevent theircoming into town. It is shown that the poor relief committee sometimes acted without legal support when ittried to make decisions regarding migration, based on estimated future incomes and the amount of children tofeed. Overall, the migration restriction was stricter in writing than it was in reality. Relatively few people weredenied access to the town and most who were tried individually got permission to move in on condition thatthey could show that they hade an employment and/or a personal guarantee. In this sense, the town was dividedin its attitude towards the servants and labourers in a manner typical of the situation. The burghersneeded the young, unmarried servants as labour force but were not interested in their staying in town to startfamilies. The men in the cohorts, and their families, on the other hand needed to find a new place to settlewhen the countryside ran out of opportunities. The life in the town became, for many of them, a life betweentwo societies. It was characterised by a constant struggle to support oneself, with a strain of a hidden economywhere for example begging was most likely important. This also meant a labourer´s life but with a meagresalary, sufficient only for one person, not for five or six. Many of the men in the cohorts were struck by the“urban penalty” with high mortality in late midlife. These labourers became a link between the crofter´s lifeand the labourer´s life. Many families were temporarily extended when they housed relatives and familymembers beyond the nuclear family and this is interpreted as a way of handling a tough situation. By their lifechoices these men and families contributed to an important social change.