Jaime Rodrigues

Cultura marítima: marinheiros e escravos no tráfico negreiro para o Brasil (sécs. XVIII e XIX)

This essay is about the seamen culture specially that related to the African slave trade to Brasil from the end of 18th century to the middle of the 19th century. Discussing lacunal sources, the essay tries to understand and define some aspects of the marine culture like nationality and internationalism, social condition, age, work process, behavior, discipline and also the confrontation between the seamen and nature, hierarchy, language, religiosity; quotidian rituals and practical decisions, this late relative to survival and the safeguard of the group and the ship.

Escravos, senhores e vida marítima no Atlântico: Portugal, África e América portuguesa, c.1760 - c.1825

From the maritime experience of Africans in Africa, this paper analyzes the changes that occurred in the Portuguese legislation about the mobility and the registration of captive sailors and discusses the interpretations of these themes by the current historiography. It ends with an analysis of the prospects of freedom for the enslaved sailors in transit within the Portuguese colonies between the second half of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century.

A guerra e as laranjas: uma palestra radiofônica sobre o valor alimentício das frutas nacionais (1940)

Since the early twentieth-century, sanitarians have relied on the radio for educational purposes. Men like Geraldo Horacio de Paula Souza and Borges Vieira used radio waves to popularize hygienic habits and disseminate information on sanitary topics. On April 16, 1940, Paula Souza stood before the microphones at Radio Educadora Paulista and gave a lecture on the nutritional value of oranges and the need to eat them as a patriotic act. Touting the fruits nutritional qualities, Paula Souza launched the orange campaign. Its success reached beyond the borders of Sao Paulo state, as the campaign found space in the press and took form as an advertising brochure published by the Agricultural Information Service, with the unconditional support of the Minister of Agriculture, Fernando Costa.

Alimentação popular em São Paulo (1920 a 1950): políticas públicas, discursos técnicos e práticas profissionais

This article discusses how the concept of lower-class eating habits came about and developed in the intellectual circles of Sao Paulo during the first half of the 20th century. It starts by reconstructing the elements of the debate around the income and ignorance of the underprivileged as the main reasons behind their bad eating habits. Then, it looks at the focal points for interventions and public policies proposed by the government to deal with the problem thus identified, namely: training methods to produce sanitation counselors capable of offering dietary guidance as well; popular educational campaigns and new learning sites in addition to schools (e.g. healthcare centers and households); lunch and other means of offering food at schools; and diagnostic studies about food intake and eating habits among laborers. Because they were translated into technical and scientific language, the proposals and policies implemented in Sao Paulo left traces in a variety of supporting documents and media (photographs, primers, posters, inquiry notebooks, and academic literature).

Circulação atlântica: idade, tempo de trabalho e funções de escravos e libertos na marinha mercante luso-brasileira, séculos XVIII e XIX

Abstract From elements of histories of professional life that can be built even fragmentary way, I try to identify forms of involvement in the Luso-Brazilian merchant marine of slaves and freedmen, born in Africa, Portugal and Portuguese America. The temporality goes from the 1760s (when the first records of crew enrollment began to be made) until the year 1820. The text seeks to inventory the functions performed by these men, and present data of character census, such as age that were initiated in the world of maritime labor and time of their experience in the professions of the sea.

Um mundo novo no Atlântico: marinheiros e ritos de passagem na linha do equador, séculos XV-XX

The article analyzes the rite of passage upon crossing the Equator line and its transformations. In the 20th century the persistence of this ritual gave the impression that its form had always been the same. However, looking at the sources from the 16th century, we can understand its origin, dissemination, and transformation in maritime culture. Sailors and officers participated in the construction of ritual, full of significance for the professional life of men working at sea. The sources used here are basically travel narratives from the period in question.

Uma história das práticas alimentares de trabalhadores paulistanos em dois momentos do século XX

A partir de uma discussao sobre estudos que lidaram com os temas alimentares nas Ciencias Humanas, este artigo aponta as possibilidades das Pesquisas de Padrao de Vida como fontes para uma historia social da alimentacao entre trabalhadores que viviam em Sao Paulo durante a primeira metade do seculo XX. Apresento os metodos de aplicacao, as intencoes dessas pesquisas e o perfil das familias. Em seguida, os produtos e as quantidades consumidas pelas familias sao analisados em temporalidades distintas, tentando verificar o impacto da industrializacao, da renda e da propaganda.

Estoy allegada donde mis padres porque no tengo casa para vivir: notas para una historia social de la jerarquía, la tensión familiar y el consumo alimenticio entre los trabajadores de São Paulo, 1937-1963.

En este articulo presento algunas potencialidades de las fuentes representadas por las Investigaciones de Calidad de Vida (PPVs, siglas en portugues) aplicadasxa0 en la ciudad de Sao Paulo en el siglo XX, desde la implantacion del sueldo minimo en Brasil hasta el inicio de la decada de 1960.xa0 Estas investigaciones, que servianxa0xa0de basexa0xa0xa0a una politica publica y tenian un objetivo economico explicito tambien constituyen fuentesxa0enriquecedoras para el estudio de los trabajadores de la ciudad a partir del punto de vista de la Historia Social en la medida que permiten entrar al interior de sus casas y sondear sus comportamientos.xa0 Entre muchas otras tematicas posibles, analizo aqui las evidencias que tratan de la jerarquia y de la tension familiar, particularmente entre los conyuges y entre ellos y sus hijos, presentando tambien algunas tendencias de consumo relativasxa0 a los productos alimenticios basicos y al alcohol, relacionadosxa0 con las tensiones familiares cotidianas.