contrasts the figure of the nostalgic historian as conjuror of a mythic past (who resembles the first Portuguese conquistadores, with their reading of Brazil as the absolute origin, Eden itself) with that of the historian as exorcist: ‘Seja qual for o real valor da explicação aqui oferecida para o empenho moderno de autores americanos no sentido de uma recuperação da história primordial, é fora de dúvida que ela pode prestar-se a equívocos quando acena vivamente para aquela ambição nostálgica de viver de novo as próprias origens. Visões do paraíso, São Paulo: Brasiliense Publifolha.
But the novelty of this approach among Brazilian scholars has perhaps been overstated: even as he maintains racial categories (principally that of the mulato) as the object of sociological inquiry, Freyre already proposes in Casa-grande e senzala-following Franz Boas, under whom he studied at Columbia University-that such categories be regarded as social rather than (or at least more than) biological in origin and consequence.Ĥ In the preface to the second edition of Visões do paraíso, Holanda Holanda, Sérgio Buarque de.
(in A queda do aventureiro) writes at length on Holanda's specifically Weberian framework as a result of his reading in German sociology during his stay in Berlin (1929–1930). A queda do aventureiro: Aventura, cordialidade e os novos tempos em Raízes do Brasil, Campinas: Unicamp. Pedro Meira Monteiro Monteiro, Pedro Meira. The introduction focuses on the series as a whole rather than on Holanda's text, presenting the editorial project as an enterprise in the formation of national consciousness through the divulgation of works treating ‘problemas de interesse geral para o nosso paiz e para o nosso tempo’ (viii) for a broadly defined readership of ‘cultured Brazilians’ (‘visando corresponder não só ás necessidades do estudioso como á curiosidade intellectual de todo brasileiro culto pelas coisas e pelo passado do seu paiz’ ).Ģ Most notably the Faculdade de Ciencias e Letras of the University of São Paulo (1934).ģ Antonio Candido writes, in his preface to the 1967 edition, ‘Num momento em que os intérpretes do nosso passado ainda se preocupavam sobretudo com os aspectos da natureza biológica Sérgio Buarque de Holanda puxou a sua análise para o lado da psicologia e da história social, com um senso agudo das estruturas’ (238). 1 Freyre himself wrote the introduction to the first edition (1936), published as the first volume of a series entitled ‘Documentos Brasileiros,’ edited by José Olympio.
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