Febrônio Índio do Brasil na imprensa carioca (1919 1939)

• Autor(a) principal: Damasceno, Hugo de Nilson
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15221
• topic: Febrônio; Press; Scientific Knowledge and Population; Imprensa; Saber científico e população; Índio do Brasil, Febrônio, 1895-1984 - Crimes e criminosos; Crimes e criminosos - Aspectos sociológicos - Rio de Janeiro; Crimes e criminosos - Aspectos psicológicos; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

During the 1920 s and the 1930 s, Rio de Janeiro s press tackled the crimes committed by Febrônio Índio do Brasil (1895-1984), a man born in São Miguel de Jequitinhonha (Minas Gerais) who arrived in Rio de Janeiro at around 14 years old. Literature about him informs that he left home due to abuse perpetrated by his father, known as someone violent who frequently assaulted his family members. After getting involved with gambling while passing through Tiradentes Square, Febronio extinguished his financial resources, which set the beginning of his passage, composed of several crimes. During his passage through the Republic s capital then, Febrônio stole, commited murders, illegaly performed some professions such as doctor and dentist amongst other infractions. Being a repeat offender, he caught the attention of the news of that time (1919 1939), also catching the eye of doctors and lawyers, worried about comprehending the reasons that bring someone to commit crimes against the current social order. Three newspapers were investigated: Correio da Manhã; A Noite; and O Paiz. The access to those newspapers was possible through the digital library of the National Library (http://memoria.bn.br/). Initially, a thorough search on all editions of those newspapers was made, among the aforementioned years. After identifying the articles, the main passages were transcribed, preserving the language present there. A series of informations relevant to the comprehension of the case were brought up: detentions, crimes, victims, authorities positioning regarding Febrônio. The newspapers contemplated the victims , the witnesses and other people s testimonies, who, as they described the crimes, highlighted the author s skin color. In O Paiz September 14th, 1927 s headline, for example, one of the victims emphasized that Febrônio was a mulatto . Such posture was signaled by Peter Fry (1941-), British anthropologist and commentator of the case, when he reported that the witnesses and victims testified as if they brought a memorized lesson. This allows us to visualize how last century s society perceived the mixed race individuals, pointing to the racial prejudice as present for a long time and reinforced by the press, which also served to the scientific debate of that time, through the dissemination of Febronio s report, elaborated by the psychiatrist Carrilho and the divulging of other specialist s opinions, such as the psychiatrists Juliano Moreira, Adauto Botelho and Mauricio Urstein. It will be tackled how Rio de Janeiro s press announced the Febrônio case through the medic-psychiatric debate set in Brasil during the beginning of the 20th century and, after that, how people referred to Febrônio during interview mediated by the press and during police questioning