Images of villages and towns of Brazil´s hinterland in the iconography and reports of the Philosophical Journey of Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (1783-1792)

Author(s)

Pedro Hungria Cabral

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI)
• Defense date: 2023-03-09

Examining board members

Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno; Cristiana Nunes Galvão de Barros Barreto; Manoel Fernandes de Sousa Neto

• Advisor: Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno; Dante Luiz Martins Teixeira

Abstract

This dissertation aims to ponder on the existing urban iconographies in the documentary collection of the Philosophical Journey through the Captaincies of Grão- Pará, Rio Negro, Mato Grosso and Cuiabá (1783-1792), coordinated by the luso- brazilian naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira. In addition to this, an exercise of spatialization and georeferencing of these images on a cartographic basis is proposed, in order to be able to compare different documentary typologies of the time that dealt with the highlighted region. Thus constituting a comparison between the various documentary typologies, interpreted in the light of an landscape archaeology, aiming to contribute to the broad discussion on the subject. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 19/08732-7 - Images of villages and towns of Brazil’s hinterland in the iconography and reports of the philosophical journey of Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (1783-1792)
• Grantee: Pedro Hungria Cabral
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master