Paulo Duarte and the Museum of the American Man: relationship of humanism in Brazil

• Grant number: 10/14677-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Aline Vieira de Carvalho
• Grantee: Isabela Soraia Backx Sanabria
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the construction of discourses about man and Humanism by Paul Duarte - one of the leading exponents of archaeological activity in Brazil - and understand how they were used in creating the foundations of scientific archeology in Brazil. For this, we will analyze the concepts developed in France from the 1930s until 1950 of Man and Humanism in the works of Paul Rivet. This choice is due to the fact that Rivet had been the founder of the Museum of Man in Paris, and mentor of Duarte. In Brazil, the last use these concepts for the idealization of an "Museu do Homem Americano" that would defend the existence of a Universal Man and work with the specificities of America. Although designed by Duarte, that project would find fertile ground in the 1980s with the archaeologist Niède Guidon. The contexts of production of the museum and the intellectuals involved in its creation will be analyzed to understand the construction of this category of Universal Man (what is included and excluded).The research will be developed through analysis of written texts, to show how discourses are culturally and socially constructed. (AU)