Abstract

CORREA, Mariza. Repensando a família patriarcal brasileira. Cad. Pesqui. [online]. 1981, n.37, pp.5-16. ISSN 0100-1574.

This paper attempts to question some of the empirical and theoretical bases until now aknowledged as the foundations for the emergence of two dominant lines in the literature about family in Brazil: one that sees the patriarcal family as the fundamental institution in rural Colonial Brazil, the other focusing on the modern conjugal family of urban times. The argument is that both may be better seen as part of a single theoretical vision that envisages only the ruling classes of society as agents of our history, therefore ruling out of our universe of research the possibility to investigate the alternative forms of family life that may have existed, and still exist, in Brazil.

Keywords : Famílias; Instituições; Brasil-Colônia; Zona rural.

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