Historiography Of Brazil Research Articles

Roda and Terreiro: The Historiography of Brazil’s Visual Arts at the Crossroads of Globalization

The article focuses on Brazil’s visual arts historiography from the 1990s onwards when institutions in Europe and the U.S. began to present Brazil’s art more frequently amid the growing globalization of the art system. Edge cases are highlighted to demonstrate how scholars based outside Brazil are helping to build a canon of that country’s visual arts that contrasts and surpasses the canon of Brazil’s visual arts outlined in Brazil’s collections, exhibitions, publications, and scholarly production. The image of roda (circle) in Ronald Duarte’s Nimbo/Oxalá and Ricardo Basbaum’s image/idea of “terreiro de encontros” (terrace of encounters) are proposed as Afro-Brazilian references with which to face the challenges of these historiographic crossroads.

Labor Justice and social historiography in Brazil: notes on corporatist project paths

Resumo O artigo discute a relação entre Justiça do Trabalho, trabalhadores, trabalhadoras e seus sindicatos à luz da produção historiográfica brasileira recente, que utiliza processos judiciais trabalhistas como fonte ou objeto de pesquisa. Defende-se a ideia de que a instituição, nascida em meio ao projeto corporativista varguista, sofreu grandes transformações em confronto com aspirações e ações dos atores sociais, em especial o movimento operário. O tema é desenvolvido a partir da análise da criação dessa justiça especializada e sua acepção na visão de um de seus idealizadores, o jurista e sociólogo Oliveira Viana, em contraste com as constatações levantadas pelas pesquisas históricas atuais a respeito da prática efetiva das leis e direitos ao longo das décadas seguintes no Brasil.

A history of sport historiography in Brazil

The Brazilian Congress of Sport History, Leisure and Physical Education (CHELEF) is a traditional event in Latin America which has been celebrated for more than 25 years in Brazil. Current paper, focusing on bibliographic production, investigates sport historiography in Brazil as provided by the proceedings of the Brazilian Congress of Sport History, Leisure and Physical Education between 1993 and 2016. Proceedings provided 1517 texts, of which 694 focus on sports. The history of sport historiography took into account themes, source types, historical periods, theory and methodology and the most quoted authors/papers in the texts in the Proceedings. Current sports historiography in Brazil has tried to break away from the legitimization of official narratives which proved to be universals and based on the myth of their origin. New aims, sources and theories of history were required for the social and dynamic conditions of academic events and post-graduate courses.

Apresentação do dossiê: A Historiografia sobre as Missões Jesuíticas: a Escrita e o Tempo

Apresentação do dossiê: A Historiografia sobre as Missões Jesuíticas: a Escrita e o Tempo

Looking at Brazilian fashion studies: Fifty years of research and teaching

Abstract This article aims to examine academic output in Brazil in the field of clothing and fashion over the last 50 years with a focus on the humanities, especially history. Formerly an invisible or insignificant subject, fashion became a powerful key for researchers in Brazil to analyse social dynamics, hierarchies, class distinction, consumption and gender issues, among others. Currently in Brazil it is evident that a significant amount of fashion research is being conducted in both public and private universities. The expansion of undergraduate courses related to fashion, the organization of academic events focused on the object, the publishing of Master’s dissertations and Ph.D. theses, and the launch of academic journals on dress and fashion have contributed to this framework. The article also analyses the work of Sofia Jobim Magno de Carvalho, a high school teacher, illustrator, costume designer, journalist, feminist and collector who started teaching clothing in 1949. Sofia’s professional training and experience led her to favour the practices of creating, collecting and preserving, rather than engaging in theoretical, historical or aesthetic discussions. The article will conclude with an overview of recent Brazilian academic research around clothing and fashion. The aim is to analyse the reception and influence of French and Anglo-American historiography in Brazil and to identify under-investigated research areas around costume, fashion and appearance.

Ordering time, nationalising the past: temporality, historiography and Brazil’s "formation"

This article presents an overview of historiography in Brazil from the 1840s to the 1950s and delimits the impasses, tensions and disputes in relation to two concomitant processes: the nationalisation of the past and the institutionalisation of historical research in the country. Our central reasoning is that, over the course of this period, the writing of history demanded multifaceted narrative and interpretative reconfigurations regarding the colonial past in order to portray the nation with its multiple temporalities and contrasts. These were perceived as structural traits of the present and explicative causes of Brazil’s alleged “backwardness” vis-à-vis the ideals of civilisation, contributing to a continuous postponement of future expectations regarding the full attainment of modernity. Not by chance, in the early decades of the twentieth century, the use of the formation concept emerged as a fundamental notion in the analysis and understanding of Brazilian history. Not only did it come as a kind of “response” to the problem of nationality but it also suggested that its construction was unfinished and uncertain in character.

Exumando rosas, procurando (por) símbolos: a revista Rosa Cruz (1901 e 1904)

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-784X.2016v16n26p25Este artigo, decorrente das reflexões iniciadas durante o mestrado em literatura realizado no Núcleo de Estudos Literários e Culturais da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina / NELIC – UFSC, apresenta algumas das diferentes leituras possíveis para a revista simbolista Rosa-Cruz, publicada nos anos de 1901 e 1904 no Rio de Janeiro. Bastante desconhecida na historiografia literária brasileira, tem-se até hoje uma única chave de leitura da revista: um veículo de homenagem à Cruz e Sousa. A proposta deste artigo é discorrer sobre outros possíveis modos de se ler a revista, partindo de uma análise do seu título e dos diferentes grupos de autores que por ela circularam.

"A selva escura da história do Brasil” e o seu “torrão paulista”: Paulo Prado através da lupa de Capistrano de Abreu

Ao estrear como escritor, Paulo Prado (1869-1943) afirma claramente sua filiação ao grande historiador Capistrano de Abreu (1853-1927), um marco da moderna historiografia brasileira. É justamente pela “mão segura e amiga” de Capistrano que Prado declara ter “penetr[ado] a selva escura da história do Brasil, de que é parte tão importante a história do nosso torrão paulista”. Prado descreve-o como o grande responsável pelo seu interesse pelas coisas brasileiras na diversidade de suas expressões. Mas a despeito dessa forte interlocução entre os dois, cabe indagar: é possível enxergar em Prado um historiador à la Capistrano? No presente artigo, procuro responder a essa questão por meio de uma breve análise das proximidades e distâncias da produção de Prado em relação à obra de Capistrano.

Accompagner la puissance ou la démocratie ? L'historiographie des relations internationales au Brésil

Understand Power or Democracy ? International Relations’ historiography in Brazil This article analyzes the formation of the historiography of international relations produced in Brazil. It’s examining its institutional development sites, and the nature of the research programs in place. The development of specialized historiography has been strongly influenced by institutional settings with restricted career paths in large academic centers, and the process of re-democratization of Brazil, mainly in line with the Constitution of 1988, contributing to the expansion research programs.

Theory and Practice of Literary Historiography in Brazil, 1950s: A Look into the Corporate Logic of a Modernist Institution

Educational institutions and the state cultural apparatus play a decisive role in canon formation. As an academic subfield usually linked to institutions of higher education and sometimes to government agencies, literary historiography attempts to give the national canon a fixed form, a chronological and thematic structure that aims to regulate the study of literature in the educational field.

A Promising Research Ground: Translation Historiography in Brazil

In Brazil, studies in Translation History began in the late eighties and expanded to the extent that by 1998 they had become an area per se in translation fori. The theories by Lefevere, Toury and Holmes are being applied to large corpuses of translations produced from the forties to the seventies in an effort to disclose publishing practices affecting the translation of fiction and the formation of a readership for this genre. New trends in the field include the pooling of human resources to deal with larger projects and an interest in how market demands affect the work of translators.

The Historiography of Brazil, 1889-1964, Part II

The Historiography of Brazil, 1889-1964, Part II

The Historiography of Brazil, 1889-1964, Part II

The Historiography of Brazil, 1889-1964, Part II

The Historiography of Brazil, 1889-1964: Part I

The Historiography of Brazil, 1889-1964: Part I

The Historiography of Brazil, 1889-1964: Part I

P ART I of this article, published in the previous issue, discussed the ideologies and assumptions which have shaped history writing on the years between the founding of the Republic in 1889 and the coup of 1964. The remainder of Part I was devoted to political history. Part II, which follows, begins with a brief discussion of the study of state and local politics. Longer sections are then devoted to economic history and foreign relations.

Northeast Brazil 1700-50: The agricultural crisis re-examined

The period from 1700 to 1750 was one of dramatic change in Brazil. The two major elements in the change were the beginning of gold production in the highlands of present-day Minas Gerais and later in Goiás and Mato Grosso and a decline in agriculture in the coastal areas of the Northeast. In the historiography of Brazil these changes have been interrelated, the one as cause, the other as effect. In so doing, historians have paid little attention to the date of the agricultural depression or to the geographical variations in the intensity of the decline. In this paper I propose to examine the stages of that decline more closely and to try to determine the significance of the discovery of gold as a cause by comparing its role to that of other possible cause such as drought, political instability and, with the emergence of other more competitive centres of sugar production, declining sugar prices. I will show that the agricultural depression in the Northeast came long after the initial discoveries of gold and will argue that the price of sugar rather than the effects of a gold rush was the crucial variable in the timing of the depression.

The Contribution of Capistrano de Abreu to Brazilian Historiography

João Capistrano de Abreu changed the course of Brazilian historiography. Unlike previous historians who had oriented their studies toward colonial history as an expression of Brazil's connections with European culture, he pointed to the socioeconomic and psychological aspects of the evolution of the Brazilian interior as the most significant part of Brazilian history. By reinterpreting familiar sources and uncovering new material, he reconstructed the Brazilian colonial experience from a totally original point of view. Dating from the publication of his two major works, Os Caminhos Amigos e o Povoamento do Brasil (1889) and Capítulos de História Colonial (1907), the perspectives of historiography in Brazil have altered, and historians have reoriented their studies to emphasize the development of Brazil as an independent nation rather than as an appendage of Portugal.

The Historiography of Brazil 1808-1889

N REVIEWING the historiography of nineteenth-century Brazil produced in the four decades following the First World War, three factors emerge.1 In the first place, the output was large, compared with that of earlier periods of historiography. Seconidly, not only historians but economists, anthropologists, and sociologists contributed to the writing of history. In the third place, historical publications were more analytical than narrative, reflecting the growing professionalization of the historian's craft. In Brazil the search for tradition as well as the hunger for knowledge of the past, both forms of nationalism, help to explain the volume and scope. The emergence of a larger reading public, the product of a growing middle class, was another factor. Yet it is no exaggeration to presume that the turbulent post-war decades, as the rate of Brazilian modernization accelerated, encouraged many to look to the past for insight into the manifold problems of their times. Some looked to the past for apparent order and stability; others, to find out why their predecessors had left so many unresolved problems. The interests, prejudices, and ideals of the post-war generation of Brazilianists were reflected in the historiographical output of those years. In the post-war years, three decades after the proclamation of the republic in 1889, disappointment and cynicism replaced the optimism