Fragmented honor: marriage, morality and adultery (Belém, 1894-1900)

Abstract

The study deals with the meanings of male honor within some marriages in the city of Belém-PA at the end of the 19th century. Methodologically and theoretically, the text focused on dialogues with the empiricist (with the sources) in order to reveal the meanings given to the honor by both husbands and wives, and for this reason, the interpretations essentially had as their raw material the documentation. In this way, investments were made in the conduct of the unworthy faculties, which had the power to place eternal bridal celebrations one day, but for various reasons involving principles of honor (adultery, mistreatment, insults, lack of provisions and protection), have come to an end. Accordingly, the reflections were based on the logic that there were deep demands of appropriate behaviors appropriate to the wives, and, on the face of it, multiple requisitions were daily placed on them to fulfill, however, in these analyzes, the honor of the husband as greatness, conquest and colonization of the wife was not treated on the scale of responsibility only of the consort, but of the characters who gave in marriage.