Resumen

CONCEICAO, Joaquim Tavares da  y  LIMA, Aristela Arestides. Farming instrucution, health, hygiene and moralization of practices in the Farmer’s guide. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.20, e010.  Epub 29-Ene-2022. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v20-2021-10.

This article presents a historiographical comprehension of the Farmer’s guide, emphasizing aspects of its materiality, circulation and appropriations in agricultural teaching. Regarding the content, it analyses instructions of the scientific agriculture and standards of hygiene and moralization of the customs that the book intended to instill among the rural population. Two editions of the guide were analysed, organized in 05 volumes, published in the years 1969 and 1970 by the State of Rio Grande do Sul's Agriculture Department. In order to achieve a regional audience, this work followed different routes, reaching readers in other regions of Brazil. This booklet can be understood as a manual of practices’ moralization and also of inculcation of hygienic standards and, mainly, as diffuser of agronomic know-how for the purpose of forging a productive and moralized farmer according to the current standards.

Palabras clave : Farmer’s guide; Agricultural education; Modernization of agriculture.

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