A integração nacional pelo saneamento do sertão: Goiás no relatório de Arthur Neiva e Belizário pena (1912)

Abstract

This article is about the investigation into the backcountry sanitation proposal, made by the doctors Arthur Neiva e Belisário Neiva, part of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, elaborated based on their scientific trip to the north of the country in 1912. For the analysis, the conception of temporality as thought by Koseleck and the concept of civilization of Norbert Elias were both used, beyond the conception of knowledge field and symbolic power by Bourdieu. The sanitation of the backcountry proposed by the sanitarian doctors would be the key to national integration, which would withdraw the backlanders of abandonment, backwardness, hunger, illiteracy and disease they were been relegated. Finally, the narratives produced about the population in the interior of Goiás were called  into question, from a way of seeing the specifics of a place, a time, a “knowledge field” that mobilizes values and images.