Varnhagen in movement: a brief anthology of an existence
The purpose of this article is to outline a life and work brief anthology of historian Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen (1816-1878), who lived mainly out of Brazil. I try to relate part of his extensive work to a distant look, as an effect of his continuous movement in search of files and documents on...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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| Series: | Topoi |
| Online Access: | http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1518-33192007000100003&lng=en&tlng=en |
| Summary: | The purpose of this article is to outline a life and work brief anthology of historian Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen (1816-1878), who lived mainly out of Brazil. I try to relate part of his extensive work to a distant look, as an effect of his continuous movement in search of files and documents on Brazil's history and geography which were found abroad. In addition, i intend to emphasize the relevance of journeys and in locu wiews as cognitive resources for writing history in a context characterized by the emergence of history as a science and its claim for narrative objectivity and for historians impartiality. |
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| ISSN: | 1518-3319 2237-101X |