Ornamentação do Museu Paulista para o Primeiro Centenário: construção de identidade nacional na década de 1920

In the last decades, several studies have focused Museu Paulista, the collections, the monument building and Afonso de Escragnole Taunay's term, helping for the development of the historical knowledge and the architectural, artistic and cultural patrimony of São Paulo. The museum's ornamentation, organized by Taunay, for the commemorations of the First Centennial of Independence, in 1922, composed essentially of paintings and sculptures, aiming to narrate the colonial period up to the independence, is the focus of studies. The sources allowed us to understand the way the themes were selected, the making and the disposition of the works, in various levels, in the Hall, the Stairway and the Honour Room. The initial years of Taunay's term (1917 - 1945) were propitious for the making of the ornamentation, given the official support and the financial resources obtained, including the ones from the society of São Paulo. The finalization of the ornamentation, nevertheless, took two decades, due to the exiguity of the income, after the Centennial festivities. The ornamentation was granted as concluded by Taunay, with the placing of the last amphora on the Stairway, in 1931, and the publishing of the Guide of the Historical Section of Museu Paulista (Guia da Secção Histórica do Museu Paulista), in 1937. However, the last paintings were made and incorporated in the 1960's

A fetichização do livro didático no Brasil

Este artigo discutirá como as diversas polêmicas sobre a qualidade dos livros didáticos veiculadas pela imprensa nos últimos anos demonstram a supervalorização deste instrumento didático/pedagógico em nossa cultura escolar. Este status alcançado nas representações sociais pelos livros didáticos é resultado de uma complexa trajetória histórica, uma significativa relevância econômica, e de contornos ideológicos e políticos, sobretudo no período republicano brasileiro. Por fim, debaterá como a consagração deste material parece ofuscar outras discussões como as reais condições de trabalho, formação e aprendizado de professores e alunos brasileiros do ensino básico

Laços familiares e aspectos materiais da dinâmica mercantil na cidade de São Paulo (séculos XVIII e XIX)

Based on the family ties established within the active merchant community of the city of São Paulo through the 18th and 19th centuries, the author sets out to tell the life story of nine merchants involved in matrimonial alliances, with a focus on the transactions carried out, their sociopolitical engagement and the fortunes of their descendants. Having done that, she seeks out connections between the urban development of the city center and the activities of these businessmen by means of analyses centered on the material aspects of their lives, particularly those related to their homes and home furniture