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Stringing Together a Nation
DIVThis analysis of the career of Candido Rondon, an army officer who founded and directed Brazil's Indian Protection Service, provides an avenue to deconstruct recent Brazilian historiography on nation building, indigenous people, and state action./div
Stringing together a nation
Focusing on one of the most fascinating and debated figures in the history of modern Brazil,Stringing Together a Nationis the first full-length study of the life and career of Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865-1958) to be published in English. In the early twentieth century, Rondon, a military engineer, led what became known as the Rondon Commission in a massive undertaking: the building of telegraph lines and roads connecting Brazil's vast interior with its coast. Todd A. Diacon describes how, in stringing together a nation with telegraph wire, Rondon attempted to create a unified community of "Brazilians" from a population whose loyalties and identities were much more local and region...
Stringing Together a Nation
DIVThis analysis of the career of Candido Rondon, an army officer who founded and directed Brazil's Indian Protection Service, provides an avenue to deconstruct recent Brazilian historiography on nation building, indigenous people, and state action./div
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Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
A thrilling biography of the Indigenous Brazilian explorer, scientist, stateseman, and conservationist who guided Theodore Roosevelt on his journey down the River of Doubt. Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native peoples had avoided them—and led Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, on their celebrated “River of Doubt” journey in 1913–14. Upon leaving the Brazilian Army in 1930 with the rank of a two-star general, Rondon, himself of indigenous descent, devoted the remai...
Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon
Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon traz dois textos de Darcy Ribeiro sobre Rondon. O primeiro —A obra indigenista de Rondon — saiu em 1958 nos Cadernos de Cultura, do MEC. O segundo — Os quatro princípios de Rondon — configura-se no necrológio do sertanista, falecido em 1958. Quando dava os primeiros passos em sua exitosa carreira de antropólogo, trabalhando no Serviço de Proteção aos Índios, Darcy Ribeiro teve a oportunidade de conhecer um dos homens que mais souberam se relacionar com os povos nativos do Brasil: Cândido Rondon. Como não poderia deixar de ser, a identificação entre os dois foi grande. A preocupação com a conservação do meio ambiente, o respeito pelos co...
