Os tipos da rua de festas e tradições populares (1901) de Mello Moraes Filho: desafiando narrativas e relendo sujeitos

Abstract

In the midst of conflicts between political forces to become the substratum that moves and occupies the streets of Rio de Janeiro in the final years of the 19th century, in 1901, the “revised and expanded edition” of Festas e Tradições Populares do Brasil of Mello Moraes Filho. This work, further on to recording how some street parties were held with a high public presence such as Camival, the Festa do Divino, Moraes Filho also records religious parties and popular traditions such as “Um Casamento de Ciganos”, the “A Festa dos Mortos”, “A Festa da Glória”, among others. However, there is a unity that seems to detach itself from this proposal of parties and popular traditions in his book, “Tipos da Rua”, people who throughout the XIX occupy different spaces in different times of the XIX, but who have as their place of greater recognition in the streets of Rio de Janeiro. The present work aims to develop a study about the “Tipos da Rua”, in order to understand the dynamics from which the narrative about these subjects was built inside of a national culture project, establishing counterpoints in historiography and expanding the understanding about them. In a complementary way, through case studies, I aim to add historical substratum to certain subjects present in Types of Street, in order to broaden the field of analysis and debate about these subjects who, within social history, have been poorly studied.