Ideas s circulation in a changing city: Luanda (1880-1901)

• Grant number: 13/05727-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date until: June 30, 2013
• End date until: August 29, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Leila Maria Goncalves Leite Hernandez
• Grantee: Helena Wakim Moreno
• Supervisor: José Augusto Nunes da Silva Horta
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/15953-8 - Voz d'Angola clamando no deserto: protest and demand in Luanda (1881-1901), BP.MS

Abstract

This Project proposes a research work in three collections of libraries and archives in Lisbon, where are kept important documents about Luanda's press in the late nineteenth century. This documents have been located through original's guide, digital catalogues reference work which use important originals to our master research in progress. The documentation founded will be read and analyze from a critical point of view, exploring the documents by african's questions and demands. This Master team is not known in Brazil, and still there are few originals to work this question in the country. The possibility of researching in a foreign country will bring important contributions to the final result. (AU)