O salvador politico e a cidade ideal : mito e utopia no extremo norte de Minas Gerais (1950-1980)

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2001

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Tbis work aims atexploring the manifestations of the Brazilian polítical imaginary through the reconstruction of Antonio Lopo Montalvão s trajectory. Illegitimate child of a great land proprietor in the very North of Minas Gerais, Montalvão had a polítical career marked by the mythical and supernatural features that were attributed to him, from the 50 s to the 70 s. Although Montalvão had a remarkable position as an opponent to the traditional colonel s polícy of the region, bis trajectory evidences strokes of the pennanence of ancestral practices of domination. This continuity and rupture are intermediate by the mythical aspects that coats Montalvão s image in the community. It was a common belíefthat, although self-taught, he also withheld a vast knowledge and had supernatural gifts. These attributes enabled him to lead and guide the population in direction to this group desired future of social peace. In order to receive this future, a negation of the experimented realíty, it was created the city of Montalvânia, where there would have no place for exploitation, inequity or misery. These are the three imaginary representations discussed in this essay: the Colonel s image, the polític myth ofthe Savior and the utopia ofthe Ideal City

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imaginario utopias mito historia social coronelismo

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