Abstract

CASTELLANOS, Samuel Luis Velázquez. Local reading books and civility manuals as material culture of Maranhão’s schools to teach reading and becoming. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2022, vol.21, e117.  Epub Sep 13, 2022. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v21-2022-117.

In this article, points of contact between reading books by authors from Maranhão and non-national civility manuals are analyzed, in order to broaden these concepts in both directions, since themes supported by the control and enforcement strategies allowed by law, they derive from conceptual armor connected to the web of meanings constructed by individuals/ institutions at specific times. The analysis of O livro do Povo by Antonio Marques Rodrigues and Código de Bom Tom by J. I. Rouquette is based, as a source and object, in the light of the theoretical-methodological assumptions of cultural history. It is concluded that the reading books of authors from Maranhão can be appreciated as prescription manuals, as they not only cohabit and compete for school consumption, but also created strategies similar to non-national production, marking singularities of the local culture without losing sight of control of habits, conducts and behaviors in the name of a specific morality.

Keywords : Local readings books; Civility manuals; Maranhão Empire.

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