OS FILHOS DAS BRENHAS E O IMPÉRIO DO BRASIL: A ETNOGRAFIA NO INSTITUTO HISTÓRICO E GEOGRÁFICO DO BRASIL (1840-1860) / THE SONS OF THE WOODS AND THE EMPIRE OF BRAZIL: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE INSTITUTO HISTÓRICO E GEOGRÁFICO DO BRASIL (1840-1860)

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2005

RESUMO

Aiming at the investigation of the relation between the ideas of Nation and the production of knowledge by a literate elite of the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Brasil (Brazilian Institute of History and Geography), the present thesis attempts to investigate a field of studies and debates on the Brazilian Indian in this institution. In a period when the Indianism in the literature was highlighted, between the decades of 1840 and 1860, the ethnography of the Institute partook of the debates on the representation of the Indian to nationality, based on the production of historical knowledge. The thesis addresses three issues from the perspective of this production of historical knowledge. First, it deals with the shaping of the ethnography of the Institute, taking as a starting point the field of representations and knowledge of the Indian between the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Second, it attempted to elaborate a dialogue between this ethnography and the emergence of the concepts of race and nation in the European and American ethnological debates. Lastly, it tried to demonstrate the crossing-fields of the ethnographical theories and practices and the management of an indigenist policy by the imperial State. The thesis examined the intellectual productions which characterize the ethnography of the Institute linking these productions to the following interpretations by the literates of the historical process that formed the imperial society during the consolidation of the imperial State. In one way, the ethnography of the Institute made possible a reflection on the role of the Indians in the History of Brazil, in another way, it promoted a debate on the ethnic composition of the population of the Empire and on its indigenists policies. The thesis attempts to deal with both these aspects, relating them to the problem of the Nation.

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brazil nation nacao historiography imperio etnografia historiografia brasil ethnography indianismo empire indianism

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