Manor and slave hut

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Manor and slave hut ( Portuguese: Casa-Grande & Senzala ) is a work by the Brazilian sociologist and anthropologist Gilberto Freyre, published in 1933 . It is considered a classic of sociology and modern cultural anthropology. The theory of a Brazilian “racial democracy” developed therein is sustainable.

expenditure

  • Casa-Grande & Senzala. Maia & Schmidt, Rio de Janeiro 1933, first edition: December 1, 1933, 768 p .; numerous new editions.
Critical edition
  • Casa-grande & senzala, edic̜ão crítica. Gilberto Freyre. Guillermo Giucci, Enrique Rodríguez Larreta e Edson Nery da Fonseca, coordenadores. Allca, Madrid 2002, ISBN 84-89666-64-4 .
German edition
  • Manor and slave hut. A picture of Brazilian society. From the Portuguese by Ludwig Graf von Schönfeldt. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne / Berlin 1965. 579 pp.

A first Spanish-language edition appeared in two volumes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Translations into English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Hungarian followed. The Critical Edition 2002 was published with the support of UNESCO. Comic book format editions published in Rio de Janeiro. The German-language edition appeared without the annotation section.

structure

The writing began around 1930 in Lisbon, was continued in Stanford and completed through research in archives and libraries in Rio de Janeiro. The chapters have an essay-like character, divided into

  1. Características gerais da colonização portuguesa do Brasil: formação de um sociedade agrária, escravocrata e híbrida. Translated as: General Features of Portuguese Colonization in Brazil. The emergence of a hybrid agricultural society based on the slave economy
  2. O indígena na formação da família brasileira. Translated as: The share of the natives in the development of the Brazilian family
  3. O colonizador português: antecedentes e predisposições. Translated as: The Portuguese colonizer. History and destination
  4. O escravo negro na vida sexual e de família do brasileiro and 5th (continuação). Translated as: The negro slave in the sex and family life of the Brazilian

literature

  • Gilberto Felisberto Vasconcellos: To “Casa-Grande e senzala” - half a century later. A propósito de "Casa Grande e senzala" meio século depois. In: Deutsch-Brasilianische Hefte , Volume 24 (1985), No. 3, pp. 150–157.
  • Guillermo Giucci: "Casa Grande & Senzala". Historia da recepção. In: Remate de males. Revista do Departamento de Teoria Literária , Campinas, SP, No. 20, 2000, pp. 31-45.
  • Review: The love law of racial mixing. Gilberto Freyre, the Brazilian author of “Manor and Slave Hut”. In: FAZ of October 21, 2000.
  • Review: Günther Hartmann: Manor and slave hut. A picture of Brazilian society. The country in the city - The development of the urban society in Brazil by Gilberto Freyre. In: Journal for Ethnology , Volume 111, Issue 1, 1986, pp. 150-154.
  • Review: Felix Becker: Manor and slave hut. A picture of the Brazilian society by Gilberto Freyre, Ludwig Graf von Schönfeldt. In: Historische Zeitschrift , Volume 236, Issue 3, 1983, pp. 643-644.
  • Hermann Matthias Görgen: Gilberto Freyre: An attempt at an introduction to his work. In: mansion and slave hut. dtv / Klett-Cotta 1990, ISBN 3-12-932450-X , foreword pp. 7-18.
  • Fátima Quintas : As melhores frases de Casa-grande & senzala. A obra-prima de Gilberto Freyre. Atlântica Editora, Rio de Janeiro 2005, ISBN 85-88080-17-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Schaeber: The power of drums. Berlin 2003, Chapter 3.2, p. 46f.
  2. ↑ Contents of edição crítica .