| Journal: | Afro-Asia |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000522008 |
| ISSN: | 0002-0591 |
| Authors: | Bissigo, Diego Nones1 |
| Institutions: | 1Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina. Brasil |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Season: | Jul-Dic |
| Number: | 56 |
| Pages: | 41-81 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| English abstract | The 19th century saw transformations in the place attributed to Africans within Brazilian society, such as thoserelated to the laws thatrepressed the Atlantic slave trade and the rising view of a civilization based on European values. The aim of this paper, therefore, is to explore how Africans were represented in the statistics produced during this period. Statistics are here understood by its etymological meaning, as a science applied by nation states to obtain a synoptic reading of its resources through mathematical language. The analysis includes local censuses from the colonial period, the proposed 1852 census, the Census of the Court (Rio de Janeiro, 1870), and the General Census of 1872, observing in each of these cases, how classification criteria (especially those of color/race, social condition and nationality) established places in which Africans could be registered in 19th century Brazil |
| Portuguese abstract | Ao longo do século XIX, o lugar dos africanos passou por transformações na sociedade brasileira, relacionadas, por exemplo, com as leis de repressão ao tráfico atlântico e com a crescente visão de civilização baseada em valores europeus. O objetivo deste texto é explorar como os africanos foram representados nas estatísticas produzidas no período. Entende-se estatística em seu sentido etimológico, como uma ciência aplicada pelos Estados nacionais para obter uma leitura sinóptica de seus recursos por meio da linguagem matemática. São analisados censos locais do período colonial, a proposta de recenseamento de 1852, o Censo da Corte de 1870 e, por fim, o Recenseamento Geral do Império, de 1872, observando-se, em cada um deles, como os critérios de classificação (especialmente de cor/raça, condição social e nacionalidade) estabeleceram lugares para o registro dos africanos no Brasil oitocentista.Palavras-chave: africanos - estatística - Estado imperial brasileiro.AbstractThe 19th century saw transformations in the place attributed to Africans within Brazilian society, such as thoserelated to the laws thatrepressed the Atlantic slave trade and the rising view of a civilization based on European values. The aim of this paper, therefore, is to explore how Africans were represented in the statistics produced during this period. Statistics are here understood by its etymological meaning, as a science applied by nation states to obtain a synoptic reading of its resources through mathematical language. The analysis includes local censuses from the colonial period, the proposed 1852 census, the Census of the Court (Rio de Janeiro, 1870), and the General Census of 1872, observing in each of these cases, how classification criteria (especially those of color/race, social condition and nationality) established places in which Africans could be registered in 19th century Brazil.Keywords: Africans - statistics - Brazilian imperial state |
| Disciplines: | Historia |
| Keyword: | Historia social, Historia política, Estratificación social, Africanos, Estadísticas, Imperio del Brasil, Brasil, Siglo XIX |
| Keyword: | Social history, Political history, Social stratification, Africans, Statistics, Brazilian imperial state, Brazil, 19th century |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
