A descrição histórica, geográfica e etnográfica do rio Capim feita por João Barbosa Rodrigues

Abstract

Resumo: Em 1871, o botânico João Barbosa Rodrigues (1842Rodrigues ( -1909 foi comissionado pelo Governo Imperial para explorar alguns rios do vale amazônico, a fim de completar a parte das palmeiras da grandiosa "Flora Brasiliensis", Abstract:In 1871, the botanist João Barbosa Rodrigues (1842-1909) was commissioned by the Imperial government to explore some rivers of the Amazon Valley in order to complete the section on palm trees in the expansive "Flora Brasiliensis" by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868). Barbosa Rodrigues consequently explored the Capim River, and the results of this trip are contained in "Exploration and study of the Amazon Valley: Capim River". In this report, the botanist not only described the geography and hydrography of this river in great detail, but also analyzed aspects related to its flora, fauna, and human occupation through archaeological and ethnographic observations. Consequently, the objective of this article is to establish how Barbosa Rodrigues' studies of the Capim River contributed to the development of scientific knowledge of the Amazon in the state of Pará within the political and scientific context of nineteenth-century Brazil, which was dominated by the Brazilian Historical and Geographic Institute.

Intertextuality and knowledge translation in travel reports: the Capim River and its inhabitants in the narratives of Alfred Russel Wallace (1849), João Barbosa Rodrigues (1874–1875) and Emil Goeldi (1897)

“…The travelers analyzed here are reputed to be the first scientists to travel the Capim River and publish works on it (Ximenes & Coelho, 2017. They are Alfred Russel Wallace (1823Wallace ( -1913, English, whose expedition took place between early May and late June 1849; João Barbosa Rodrigues (1842-1909, born in Rio de Janeiro, who traveled between December 1874 and early 1875; and Emil Goeldi (1859Goeldi ( -1917, who traveled the river between June 15 and July 20, 1897 in the company of another scientist, Jacques Huber (1867Huber ( -1914, both Swiss and the only ones to have a university degree, in this case, in natural sciences, in addition to being linked to a scientific institution, the Museu Paraense de 1 It is not our intention to discuss this geomorphological and politicaladministrative issue.…”