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National studies have demonstrated their inability to correctly understand global phenomena, and the way in which they affect societies. This chronologically ambitious book investigates methodological and theoretical issues from Roman times to the present, in terms of globalization. In this context, one of the most relevant parameters of change emerges: the itinerancy of culture and knowledge. Therefore, this volume argues that itinerant agents carry with them cultural baggage, transporting and transmitting it to other spaces. In this way, interconnection begins, producing active changes in global history and visual culture. Contributions to this book focus on comparative studies, the evolution of global phenomena, historical processes in their diachrony, regional studies, changing economies, cultural continuities, and methodological questions on globalization, among others. In addition, the book opens with a contribution from Professor Peter Burke.
Fluent Selves examines narrative practices throughout lowland South America focusing on indigenous communities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, illuminating the social and cultural processes that make the past as important as the present for these peoples. This collection brings together leading scholars in the fields of anthropology and linguistics to examine the intersection of these narratives of the past with the construction of personhood. The volume’s exploration of autobiographical and biographical accounts raises questions about fieldwork, ethical practices, and cultural boundaries in the study of anthropology. Rather than relying on a simple opposition between the “Western individual” and the non-Western rest, contributors to Fluent Selves explore the complex interplay of both individualizing as well as relational personhood in these practices. Transcending classic debates over the categorization of “myth” and “history,” the autobiographical and biographical narratives in Fluent Selves illustrate the very medium in which several modes of engaging with the past meet, are reconciled, and reemerge.
In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos Aires. By focusing on commercial and social networks in the Rio de la Plata region, the book examines how Montevideo merchant elites used transimperial connections to expand their influence and how their trade offered crucial support to MontevideoÕs autonomist projects. These transimperial networks offered different political, social, and economic options to local societies and shaped the politics that emerged in the region, including the formation of Uruguay. Connecting South America to the broader Atlantic World, this book provides an excellent case study for examining the significance of cross-border interactions in shaping independence processes and political identities.
Usos do passado, ética e negacionismos, incide sobre um dos maiores problemas enfrentados pelos historiadores e historiadoras na atualidade, a saber, a deslegitimação gradual que a produção científica do saber histórico vem sofrendo a partir da influência de grupos ligados à extrema direita. A crise de autoridade epistêmica que, segundo muitos especialistas, acomete não só a história como outros campos do saber acadêmico, exige respostas que envolvam simultaneamente aspectos epistemológicos e éticos. Os textos do livro contemplam reflexões emergentes da relação da atuação historiadora na pesquisa, na docência e nas atividades desenvolvidas junto à comunidade não acadêmica. Soma-se a isso o compromisso ético e político com a memória dos mortos e com as demandas de homens e mulheres do presente.
This book examines the trajectory of the historical knowledge about journalism produced by its scholars in Brazil, from the early accounts originating from the Brazilian Historical and Geographic Institute in the 19th century to the specialized academic field at the turn of the 21st century. The history of journalism historiography shows that during the Empire and the Old Republic, the press was idealized as a means of education and a form of mirror of events. After the New State, there was a tendency to view it as an instrument for manipulating public opinion and a suspicious documentary source in the eyes of historians. Finally, with the end of the Military Regime, and with the emergence o...
Official and popular celebrations marked the Brazilian empire's days of national festivity, and these civic rituals were the occasion for often intense debate about the imperial regime. Hendrik Kraay explores the patterns of commemoration in the capital of Rio de Janeiro, the meanings of the principal institutions of the constitutional monarchy established in 1822–24 (which were celebrated on days of national festivity), and the challenges to the imperial regime that took place during the festivities. While officialdom and the narrow elite sought to control civic rituals, the urban lower classes took an active part in them, although their popular festivities were not always welcomed by the elite. Days of National Festivity is the first book to provide a systematic analysis of civic ritual in a Latin American country over a long period of time—and in doing so, it offers new perspectives on the Brazilian empire, elite and popular politics, and urban culture.
Quando dos 500 anos do "achamento" do Brasil, Manolo Florentino deu uma entrevista para a Folha de São Paulo tecendo algumas considerações sobre aquela efeméride. O que ficará da efeméride dos 40 anos do PPGHIS? A memória em forma de comemoração. Uma festa, um vídeo, mas, principalmente, um conjunto de ensaios e artigos que demarca a produção de nossos professores e homenageia nossa história, relembrando também tantos que passaram por aqui e já partiram, como Manolo Florentino e, mais recentemente, José Murilo de Carvalho. Em 2022, o Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Social da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro completou quarenta anos de funcionamento e de credenc...
Como sugere seu título, esta coletânea pretende fomentar o ato de pensamento, o teorizar acerca do conhecimento histórico, implicado nas dimensões práticas de dois outros atos correlatos e complementares: o ensinar e o aprender esse conhecimento. E propositalmente, como permite a língua portuguesa, esses termos grafados no infinitivo são porta de entrada para uma concepção em que teorizar, aprender e ensinar história significa conjugar verbos, tecer palavras e ações. Busca-se, assim, ao mobilizar os verbos teorizar, aprender e ensinar história, valorizar a prática e o tempo presente de enunciações analíticas, no caso as que remetem à teoria da história e ao ensino e à aprendizagem de conceitos, temas e proposições do campo na formação de professores e historiadores, mas não apenas, tendo em vista os lugares da história na Educação Básica, nos debates contemporâneos no âmbito da pesquisa do ensino/aprendizagem da história.