THE ETHNOGRAPHIC DISCOURSE OF THE IHGB’S MAGAZINE: 1840 – 1860
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https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.24319Keywords:
Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute, ethnography, nation.Abstract
Aiming at the construction of a national history that would give the then independent of the Brazilian state of a nation's character, it was the newly created Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute (IHGB) the production of a memory / history marked by the backward search of the roots of the empire, leaving historical sciences provide an air of scientificity for the proposed project through "truths" grounded in extensive historical documentation and analysis of the concept 'historicist' own nineteenth century. With an air of court, the intellectual members of the institute, it was the function to visualize events and characters of the past and sentence others to permanently forgotten, aiming first, forge a past that we identify in this a great "the Brazilian nation," understood in such a project, as heir of European civilization in the tropics. Through publications produced by members of the Institute in its quarterly magazine, this article aims to conduct ethnographic survey of speeches delivered by them, in a society that was to be homogeneous, white and European, but in reality it was their ethnic and socially heterogeneous.Downloads
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2011-12-28
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BAULER, Almir; KEIM, Ernesto Jacob. THE ETHNOGRAPHIC DISCOURSE OF THE IHGB’S MAGAZINE: 1840 – 1860. Espaço Ameríndio, Porto Alegre, v. 5, n. 3, p. 66, 2011. DOI: 10.22456/1982-6524.24319. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/24319. Acesso em: 3 aug. 2026.
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