Ciência e nação: romantismo e história natural na obra de E. J. da Silva Maia

Kury, Lorelai

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“…Outras expedições foram realizadas por estrangeiros vinculados a instituições acadêmicas como parte dos esforços de internacionalização da ciência nacional. Segundo estudiosos, a segunda metade do século XIX se constitui como um momento de afirmação da ciência brasileira no âmbito científico internacional, com missões, eventos e publicações científicas apoiados pelo imperador, tendo o Museu Nacional, fundado em 1818, como instituição central de história natural (KURY, 1998;LANGER, 2014;LOPES, 1997;SÁ, 2001;SCHWARCZ, 1993). Somente na década de 1890, após o advento da República, essa liderança nas ciências naturais passou a ser dividida com outros museus regionais, a exemplo do Museu Paraense e do Museu Paulista, representando uma ampliação do cenário científico propiciada pelo sistema federalista (SANJAD, 2010: 19).…”

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História da Arqueologia Amazônica no Museu Nacional

Gomes

2020

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Este artigo apresenta um histórico da pesquisa arqueológica realizada na Amazônia durante os 200 anos de existência do Museu Nacional, que, desde o século XIX, esteve envolvido na produção científica sobre a arqueologia dessa região. Seu propósito é não só apontar as iniciativas de pesquisa e a importância das coleções arqueológicas depositadas nessa instituição ao longo do tempo, mas também colocar em destaque as interpretações acerca dos objetos e dos lugares, propostas por diversos pesquisadores. Em um momento de reflexão sobre a relevância histórica das coleções arqueológicas, afetadas pela tragédia do incêndio de setembro de 2018, destacamos ainda um olhar que se dirige ao futuro, sem nunca esquecer da herança do passado.

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História da Arqueologia Amazônica no Museu Nacional

Gomes

2020

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Imagining nation, envisioning progress: emperor, agricultural elites, and imperial ministers in search of engineers in 19th century Brazil

Lucena

2009

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This study shows how the development of engineering schools in 19th century Brazil is intimately linked with images of nation and visions of progress held by social actors who materialized these into engineering schools, curricula, and graduates. The study proposes that theories of nation present interesting conceptual and empirical challenges for engineering studies scholars by inviting us to explain the emergence and preeminence of engineering education in relationship to the emergence of nation. The article shows that in 19th century Brazil there were a number of competing images and corresponding visions of progress that significantly shaped the development of Brazil's engineering education institutions. One such image was championed by the Emperor Pedro II who wanted to reaffirm Brazil as a civilized empire on par with France and the US. Another was defended by regional elites and defined in terms of agricultural development of their local regions. A third one was endorsed by an alliance of imperial ministers and business entrepreneurs who viewed Brazil as a future industrial nation. During Brazil's Second Empire (1840-1889), no image became dominant. Yet each one materialized in a different kind of engineering education, including curricula, institutions, and graduates and set trajectories for Brazilian engineering education from late 19th century well into the 20th. Finally, this study invites engineering education reformers and policymakers to consider the importance of images of nation and visions of progress for engineering education in order to effectively strategize in their reform and policy initiatives. Theories of nationIn order to understand this relationship, we need to understand what we mean by nation. According to theorists of the nation, the nation is an 'imagined community' 1 or a 'collectivity' 2 that relates to a common reality within a territory, a country. Evidence that this community or collectivity exists is when people within a territory can make reference to 'we' as Brazilians or 'we' as Colombians when referring to a common reality, for example during an invasion by foreign (non-we) troops to a commonly held ('our') territory or during the invocation of a symbol such as a ('our') national flag. After the 'we' emerges, proposals to advance people and territory -visions of progress -also emerge.

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A French author in a Brazilian library: Nerée Boubée (1806–1862) and his textbooks on geological sciences

Figueirôa

2018

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This paper discusses the book Géologie élémentaire appliquée à l'agriculture et à l'industrie, by Nerée Boubée (1806–1863), first released in French in 1833, and later translated and published in Brazil in 1846 with the support of lieutenant Frederico Burlamaque (1803–1866), a prominent Brazilian engineer and teacher. There is a particular focus on the appendices, editors inserted works previously released on the geology of Brazil, authored by José Bonifácio d'Andrada e Silva (1763–1838), Martim Francisco Ribeiro d'Andrada (1775–1844), Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777–1855), Charles van Lede (1801–1875), and George Gardner (1810–1849). These insertions reveal the concern to ensure an education that incorporated contents explicitly about Brazil. It is well documented that French science significantly influenced scientific education in Brazil. Until the first decades of the 20th century French authors dominated the Brazilian market for textbooks on geoscientific topics, from elementary level to higher education. The selection of Nerée Boubée's book is unlikely to have been by chance. Boubée was a prolific, active author living and teaching open geoscientific courses in Paris, whose primary focus was the applied side of geology, which was a topic of great interest to the Brazilian élites who are likely to have played a role in its selection.

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Ciência e nação: romantismo e história natural na obra de E. J. da Silva Maia

Cited by 11 publications

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História da Arqueologia Amazônica no Museu Nacional

História da Arqueologia Amazônica no Museu Nacional

Imagining nation, envisioning progress: emperor, agricultural elites, and imperial ministers in search of engineers in 19th century Brazil

A French author in a Brazilian library: Nerée Boubée (1806–1862) and his textbooks on geological sciences

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