A Farra do Boi: humanidade, animalidade e as sensibilidades jurídicas em uma decisão judicial

Abstract

The farra do boi, as become knownthe traditional practice of some fishing communities on Santa Catarina coast, which is currently banned by justice on the grounds of animalabuse, is a propitious case to observe the contrasts between different legal sensibilities, aswell as the profound differences between theanthropological making and the work of thejudges. For this, the article seeks to be based onnotions that accompany the modern formationof Western thought, such as the dualistic classification between barbarian and civilized, natureand culture, rural and urban, reaching the Federal Constitution and its articles, that guaranteethe protection of both culture and environment.