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| Author(s): |
Márcia Cristina Pacito Fonseca Almeida
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2016-02-03 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Cristina Cortez Wissenbach;
Solange Ferraz de Lima;
Lucilene Reginaldo
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| Advisor: | Maria Cristina Cortez Wissenbach |
| Abstract | |
During the second half of the nineteenth century, West-Central Africa was the stage of an intensification of European expeditions that channeled economic, political and scientific interests towards the continents interior. The following study intends to analyze the important role occupied by material culture in the scientific agenda of the portuguese expedition to the Lunda headed by military leader Henrique de Carvalho between 1884 and 1888. We also intend to evaluate the potential that the study of such objects provide like sources for a broader understanding about African agencies historical. For this purpose, we selected the works Descripção da Viagem à Mussumba do Muatiânvua (1890-1894) and Ethnographia e História Tradicional dos Povos da Lunda (1890) and in a complementary way, the Album da Expedição ao Muatianvua (1887) and Collecção Henrique de Carvalho (Expedição à Lunda), published by the Geographical Society of Lisbon (1896). Thus, from the perspective of social history, we intend to investigate how the requirements and predilections manifested in Central-African societies for certain items shaped the commercial relationships established during this period. We also address the process of the incorporation and resignification of objects - particularly prestige goods and insignia of power and how material culture can be interpreted as identity expressions, social codes and political hierarchies within those societies and their relations with the Europeans. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/17609-8 - Trade, prestige goods and insignias of power: african central-western agencies in the travel writings of Henrique de Carvalho in his expedition to Lunda (1884-1888) |
| Grantee: | Márcia Cristina Pacito Fonseca Almeida |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |