Barbárie e Civilização: imagens dos índios nos viajantes no Rio de Janeiro oitocentista
Over the nineteenth century, became common the presence of foreign travelers in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The applicant therefore reports always attracted the attention of historians. In 1988, José Freire stated that the regional historiography had silenced the indigenous presence in the ninete...
| Autor principal: | Roberta Ketllen Souza Duarte |
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| Grau: | Relatório de Pesquisa |
| Idioma: | pt_BR |
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Universidade Federal do Amazonas
2017
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http://riu.ufam.edu.br/handle/prefix/5180 |
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Over the nineteenth century, became common the presence of foreign travelers
in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The applicant therefore reports always attracted the
attention of historians. In 1988, José Freire stated that the regional historiography had
silenced the indigenous presence in the nineteenth century, especially in Rio de Janeiro
and drew attention to the documents available in the collections of Rio de Janeiro that
attested to the indigenous presence both in the province and in the cities, going against a
historiography that silenced them. One of these documents highlighted by the author are
the travel accounts. For the research were selected reports from the English merchant
John Luccock and French journalist Charles Ribeyrolles, who visited Brazil in the first
decades and in the second half of the nineteenth century, respectively. Two questions
are central to the research: the first concerns the scarce historiography about the
indigenous presence in the nineteenth century Rio de Janeiro proposing to discuss the
invisibility of the Indians. The second is related to the fact that the accounts left by
travelers were important in the construction of certain images about the Indians. Such
images implied in the use of classificatory categories that passed through concepts such
as "barbarism" and "civilization." We learn such classificatory categories used by these
authors seeking to associate them to a set of existing ideas about the ideal of civilization
to the indigenous peoples of Brazil. |