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Os Rios Amazonas e Madeira : esboços e relatos de um explorador
Franz Keller-Lëuzinger (1835-1890) foi um engenheiro alemão, botânico, explorador, desenhista e pioneiro da fotografia no Brasil que, em expedição liderada por seu pai, Joseph Keller, também engenheiro, percorreu a Amazônia entre 1867 e 1868, comissionado pelo Governo Imperial para realizar levantamentos estatísticos e medições dos leitos e margens dos rios Amazonas e Madeira, de forma a averiguar a viabilidade da construção de ferrovias na região. Embora os mapas e ilustrações da expedição sejam amplamente conhecidos e referenciados pela comunidade acadêmica, até o momento os relatos da comissão jamais haviam sido traduzidos para a língua portuguesa. A presente traduç...
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Indigenous Agency in the Amazon
The largest group of indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon, the Mojos, has coexisted with non-Natives since the late 1600s, when they accepted Jesuit missionaries into their homeland, converted to Catholicism, and adapted their traditional lifestyle to the conventions of mission life. Nearly two hundred years later they faced two new challenges: liberalism and the rubber boom. White authorities promoted liberalism as a way of modernizing the region and ordered the dismantling of much of the social structure of the missions. The rubber boom created a demand for labor, which took the Mojos away from their savanna towns and into the northern rain forests. Gary Van Valen postulates that as ex...
Exploring the Archive
The Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin holds more than 6,500 historical black-and-white photographs from Latin America. These images were produced between 1868 and 1936 and mainly depict ethnological and archaeological motifs, although some portray views of urban or natural landscapes. The contributions to this volume focus on particular series from this extensive archive. In doing so, they illustrate the enormous potential for research inherent within such “repositories of memory”, represent a diverse set of approaches and provide varied interpretations of historical photographs. The contributions focus on the contexts in which these images were produced and provide interpretations of the intentions behind some of the photographs. Moreover, they analyse the acquisition of these photographs and the manner in which they have been preserved and disseminated. Additionally, the contributions highlight the manners in which the images have been used and the impact of some of the formats in which the photographs were published. This richly illustrated volume is complemented by the digital reproductions available online at http://www.smb-digital.de/.
