Jose Verissimo, amazonia intellectual: the construction of a production place (Pará, 1877-1892)

• Grant number: 15/06940-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2015
• End date: September 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education
• Principal Investigator: Maurilane de Souza Biccas
• Grantee: Felipe Tavares de Moraes
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Educação (FE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/10917-7 - JOSÉ VERÍSSIMO, INTELLECTUAL AMAZON: circulation in academic conferences and scientific contacts in Europe (Lisbon, 1880; Paris, 1889), BE.EP.DR

Abstract

This project focuses on the History of education's intellectuals: formative period, sociabilities, action and ideas; taking by its main object the intellectual making of nineteenth century Amazon - José Veríssimo (1877-1892). José Veríssimo was a key-character both in a local and in a national level, having assumed his place as a social thinker of history, culture, literature and education. The researching process selects, in the vast intellectual production of aforementioned author, his works on journals and magazines, international academic events (Portugal, 1880, and France, 1889) as well as his role as the headmaster of Colégio Americano (1884-1888), period in which he lived in the State of Pará (1877-1891). This temporal section is plausible due to the "biographic silence" surrounding the historic, ethnographic and educational works of José Veríssimo made while he was in Pará - which focused on Amazonia in the Brazilian background; this period was commonly established as a "key of interpretation" of his works - a distinction between his provincial phase (body of work created in Pará) and national phase (body of work created in Rio de Janeiro). The second phase elevated him as a mature intellectual, critic and literature historian, overshadowing his excellent works on ethnography, history of Amazonia and education. The main purpose of this work is to analyze the locus of production through social experiences, sociability webs and circulation of the emerging social and educational thinking of José Veríssimo and his constitution as an Amazonian intellectual. The analytical background of this work uses the categories: social and cultural practice - social and educational thinking - circulation: social and cultural practice - organic intellectual - culture organizer (GRAMSCI, 2001), experience - "making oneself" (THOMPSON, 1981;1987), sociability webs and itinerary (SIRINELLI, 2003), social locus of production (CERTEAU, 1982); social and educational thinking - representation (CHARTIER, 1990); cultural repertoire (ALONSO, 2002); circulation - circulation (GRUZINSKY. 2001a; 2001b).Keywords: Amazonia intellectual; Locus of production; Social and educational thinking.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MORAES, Felipe Tavares de. José Veríssimo (1857-1916), an Amazonian intellectual: the generation 1870 and education in the Grão-Pará (1877-1891). 2018. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Educação (FE/SBD) São Paulo.