JOSÉ VERÍSSIMO, INTELLECTUAL AMAZON: circulation in academic conferences and scientific contacts in Europe (Lisbon, 1880; Paris, 1889)

• Grant number: 16/10917-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2016
• End date: March 01, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education
• Principal Investigator: Maurilane de Souza Biccas
• Grantee: Felipe Tavares de Moraes
• Supervisor: Joaquim Antonio de Sousa Pintassilgo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Educação (FE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/06940-0 - Jose Verissimo, amazonia intellectual: the construction of a production place (Pará, 1877-1892), BP.DR

Abstract

The project aims to investigate the make up of Amazonian intellectual José Veríssimo, from its circulation in academic conferences and scientific contacts in Europe. The International Literary Congress (1880), held in Lisbon, José Veríssimo participated as a listener and newspaper correspondent of the "A Província do Pará", sending articles and reporting congress. In turn, it took place in Paris, the 10th Archaeological and Anthropological Congress (1889), in which Veríssimo presented a paper entitled "The Human Marajó and Ancient Amazon Civilization". There was also an exchange of correspondence with European intellectuals: Enrico Gligioli and Émile Guimet, respectively, of the Zoological Museum directors gave Vertebrati, the di Studi Supiori in Firenzi Institute, and Museé Guimet. Thus, we designed these displacements were forms of agency José Veríssimo as intellectual who thought and established literary and scientific joints from their knowledge of the Amazon.