Espíritos cheios de bichos: A fauna nas viagens de Louis Agassiz e Richard Francis Burton pelo Brasil oitocentista

Abstract

O Brasil do século XIX foi alvo de inúmeras viagens realizadas por cientistas estrangeiros. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as impressões sobre a fauna brasileira presentes nos relatos das viagens realizadas pelo naturalista suíço Louis Agassiz, em 1865, e pelo explorador inglês Richard Francis Burton, em 1868. Destes relatos privilegiam-se as descrições do meio natural de diferentes regiões brasileiras e das particularidades da fauna silvestre por eles encontrada.

A history of whales in contemporary Brazil: A study of media reports on deaths of cetaceans

“…Lords of the seas and oceans long before the human species appeared on this planet, cetaceans have been admired, feared, murdered, hunted, industrialized, and protected by humans. Brazilian historiography has been sensitive to whales, studying whaling stations 3 and the whaling industry (Castellucci, 2010; Comerlato, 2011; Duarte Filho, 2012; Edmundson and Hart, 2014), the protection of species in national parks (Losada and Drummond, 2015), and the efforts of public and private conservation organizations (Comerlato and Quiroz, 2019; Palazzo and Palazzo, 2011). This history reveals a tense, violent and at the same time delicate relationship between whales and humans, and between whalers and conservationists.…”