“BAILES E FESTAS DO BARULHO:” SOCIABILIDADE E CRIME EM MALLET-PR (1925-1965)

Abstract

The present study proposes to analyze sociability situations in which crimes occurred in the Mallet-PR region, between the decades of 1925 and 1965. With a restricted urban center and a large rural area, its population lived dispersed in the territory covered by the araucaria forest, which few gave way to agriculture. In that rough world, dances, parties, weddings, and Mass were the main means of collective fun. For various reasons, the balls and parties were the scene of arguments, fights and even crimes. In order to reconstitute aspects of sociability and social relations in that society marked by Slavic immigration, we used as main documentary sources the crime of Mallet under guard and available for research at the Documentation and Memory Center (CEDOC / I) at the State University of Midwest. In this documentary corpus we are interested in the processes involving police events in dances and parties. Through the narratives that exist in this documentation we evidence alcohol as a potential for conflict and ethnic borders as possible motivations for crime.