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Positivist Discourse in Euclides Da Cunha's Os Sertãµes University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository History ETDs Electronic Theses and Dissertations 7-9-2009 Chimeras and Jagunços: Positivist Discourse in Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões Justin Barber Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hist_etds Recommended Citation Barber, Justin. "Chimeras and Jagunços: Positivist Discourse in Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões." (2009). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hist_etds/3 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Electronic Theses and Dissertations at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in History ETDs by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CHIMERAS AND JAGUNÇOS: POSITIVIST DISCOURSE IN EUCLIDES DA CUNHA'S OS SERTÕES BY JUSTIN D. BARBER B.A., History, University of New Mexico, 2006 B.A., Religious Studies, University of New Mexico, 2006 THESIS Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts History The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico May, 2009 ©2009, Justin D. Barber iii DEDICATION This thesis is dedicated to my younger brother Sean Michael Barber, who died tragically on October 26, 2008. Unsurprised when I succeeded, jovial when I failed, Sean always believed that I was capable of achieving anything to which I devoted my heart and soul. This work represents an effort on my part to be the scholar that he imagined me to be. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS An inexpressible amount of gratitude is due to Dr. Judy Bieber, who over the last two and a half years has steadfastly waded through my often turgidly opaque prose. Thanks are due to Dr. Elizabeth Hutchison for introducing me to both Latin American history and Marcus Vargas Llosa‘s brilliantly heartrending La guerra del fin del mundo. Dr. Thomas Sizgorich played a crucial role in helping me develop the way that I approach history as a field of study and a profession. Dr. Jay Rubenstein helped me understand pedagogy before I understood the definition of the term. My scholarly pursuits as both undergrad and master‘s student would have been impossible without the support of my family. My parents, Terry and Belinda Barber, have never failed to be there when I need them. I could not ask for better in-laws than Len and Anna Miller, who happily welcomed me into their home almost five years ago. Finally, and above all, I am grateful to my wife Allison. She is singularly responsible for my academic successes past, present, and future. She never fails to keep me on track. In tandem—and perhaps more importantly—she continues to prevent my descent into an academic life best suited to Faust. v CHIMERAS AND JAGUNÇOS: POSITIVIST DISCOURSE IN EUCLIDES DA CUNHA'S OS SERTÕES BY JUSTIN D. BARBER ABSTRACT OF THESIS Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts History The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico May, 2009 CHIMERAS AND JAGUNÇOS: POSITIVIST DISCOURSE IN EUCLIDES DA CUNHA’S OS SERTÕES by Justin D. Barber B.A., History, University of New Mexico, 2006 B.A., Religious Studies, University of New Mexico, 2006 M.A., History, University of New Mexico, 2009 ABSTRACT The present study elucidates the discursive practice of positivism, as particularly manifested in late nineteenth-century Brazil. Founded in 1889, the Republic of the United States of Brazil was constructed as a positivist state by republican idealists and pragmatic oligarchs; the political embodiment of ordem e progresso (order and progress). It was a form of government meant to overcome Brazil‘s imagined and concrete backwardness by strictly adhering to the Natural Laws identified by Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, and, in particular, Herbert Spencer. Positivist progress was, however, contingent upon the elimination of the pathological, amorphous ―savage lower races.‖ Non-white degeneration in Brazil, especially amongst its substantial mixed-race populace, was thus understood to be a progressive, equilibrating force of Evolution. For close to a century Euclides da Cunha‘s Os Sertões has been treated as the literary instantiation of mestiço degeneration, a work best classified with the Spencerian ―race science‖ of Arthur Gobineau and Raimundo Nina Rodrigues. This classification, however, is incorrect. In Os Sertões, Da Cunha incarnates the totality of Brazilian progress—progress utterly superior to that of European civilization—in the body of his chimerical jagunços, a perfectly miscegenated balance of what he identifies as Brazil‘s fundamental ―ethnic elements‖: the African, the indigenous, and the Portuguese. vii TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures....................................................................................................................ix Author’s Note on Translation...........................................................................................x INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................2 CHAPTER 1 The Genealogy of Determinism I: Architectonics and the Positivist Apocalypse........................................................................................................................17 Natural Laws I: Comtean Sacralization........................................................................20 Natural Laws II: Darwinian Identification, Spencerian Instantiation...........................39 CHAPTER 2 The Genealogy of Determinism II: Nature Enthroned.......................57 Buckle: Environmental Hegemony, Tropical Monstrosity...........................................57 Maudsley: Insane Microcosm, Rational Macrocosm....................................................74 Gumplowicz: the Chimera of Progress.........................................................................96 CHAPTER 3 Degeneration and Apotheosis: Positively Constructing the Jagunço...........................................................................................................................114 Rodrigues: Mestiço Degeneration, Jagunço Annihilation..........................................118 Euclides da Cunha: Apocalyptic Chimeras, Pathological Positivists.........................131 Syngenism and Struggle: The Ethnology of Brazil................................................134 Atavism and Fanaticism: Religiosity and Madness in Brazil................................152 CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................166 BIBLIOGRAPHY..........................................................................................................170 viii List of Figures Figure 1. Map of the República dos Estados Unidos do Brasil, 1892................................1 Figure 2. Auguste Comte..................................................................................................20 Figure 3. Charles Darwin..................................................................................................39 Figure 4. Herbert Spencer.................................................................................................50 Figure 5. Henry Thomas Buckle.......................................................................................57 Figure 6. Henry Maudsley................................................................................................81 Figure 7. Ludwig Gumplowicz..........................................................................................98 Figure 8. Raimundo Nina Rodrigues...............................................................................119 Figure 9. Map of Northeastern Bahia, ca. 1896..............................................................122 Figure 10. Euclides da Cunha.........................................................................................133 Figure 11. General View of Canudos, September 1897.................................................149 Figure 12. Canudense and Residence, September 1897.................................................150 Figure 13. Soldiers with a Jagunço Prisoner, September, 1897.....................................163 Figure 14. Corpses in the Ruins of Canudos, October, 1897..........................................164 Figure 15. Canudense (―jagunço‖) Prisoners, October 2, 1097......................................165 Figure 16. Exhumed Corpse of Antonio Conselheiro, October 6, 1897.........................167 ix Author’s Note on Translation Unless otherwise noted, all English translations of the sources originally written in French or Portuguese cited in this work are my own. For the sake of clarity, I have attempted to translate the works of these authors as literally as possible. In the case of Euclides da Cunha‘s Os Sertões, I consulted Samuel Putnam‘s brilliant, if dated and at times simplified, translation, Rebellion in the Backlands. x Figure 1. Map of the República dos Estados Unidos do Brasil, 1892 Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library. 1 1 Available at: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/south_america_1892.jpg Accessed 2/07/09, 12pm. 1 Introduction ―The ancients used to suppose Order and Progress to be irreconcilable: but both are indispensable conditions in a state of modern civilization; and their combination is at once the grand difficulty and the main resource of every genuine political system. No real order can be established, and still less can it last, if it is not fully compatible with progress: and no great progress can be accomplished if
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