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| Author(s): |
Erik Petschelies
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2019-09-23 |
| Examining board members: |
Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida;
Marta Rosa Amoroso;
Peter Schroder;
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz;
Christiano Key Tambascia
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| Advisor: | Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida |
| Abstract | |
Between 1884 and 1929, German ethnologists Karl von den Steinen (1855-1929), Paul Ehrenreich (1855-1914), Herrmann Meyer (1871-1932), Max Schmidt (1874-1950), Theodor Koch-Grünberg (1872-1924), Fritz Krause (1881-1963) and Wilhelm Kissenberth (1878-1944) undertook fifteen expeditions to Brazil and its border areas in order to study indigenous peoples. This way, peoples speaking languages that belong to Tupi and Macro-Jê branches, as well as to Arawak, Iránxe, Karib, Makú, Pano, Trumai, Tikúna, Tukano and Yanomami linguistic families were visited by them. These peoples lived, and in many cases still live, in several regions in Amazonia, such as the Xingu basin area, Amazonian West, Northwest and extreme North, besides the Rio Doce basin and the Brazilian wetland. The present thesis aims to reconstruct historiographically their personal and professional trajectories, to evaluate their ethnological production, which were placed in specific social and scientific contexts, to trace their intellectual influences, and analyze the intersection of these aspects. To achieve this, the present work is grounded on primary and secondary literature, as well as primary sources, such as field journals, correspondence, photographies and documents, which are held in institutions in Germany, Brazil, Paraguay, Sweden and Switzerland. Lastly, one seeks to point reverberations of German ethnology in the establishment of this discipline in Brazil. Therefore, the thesis intents to contribute to the historiography of Science in both Germany and Brazil, and especially to the historiography of Brazilian ethnology and to the history of indigenous peoples (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/09332-9 - The network of the German ethnography in Brazil (1884-1926) |
| Grantee: | Erik Petschelies |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |