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Zoogeografia do Brasil: Fronteiras nacionais, percursos pan-americanos

Duarte, Regina Horta

Latin American research review, 2014-03, Vol.49 (2), p.68-83 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Zoogeografia do Brasil: Fronteiras nacionais, percursos pan-americanos
Autor: Duarte, Regina Horta
Assuntos: Analysis ; Animals ; Brazil ; Candido ; Conservatism ; Internationalism ; Mello-Leitão, C. de ; National identity ; Nationalism ; Political history ; Politics ; Zoogeography
É parte de: Latin American research review, 2014-03, Vol.49 (2), p.68-83
Descrição: This article is a historical analysis of the connections of nationalism, biogeography, internationalism, and conservationism in Brazil in the 1930s and 1940s. The production and circulation of biological knowledge were enmeshed with politics and connected to various scholarly and political efforts to construct a national identity. Focusing on the works of the Brazilian zoologist Candido de Mello Leitao, I argue that the study of zoogeography allowed him to adopt an innovative and complex approach to Brazilian fauna. His analyses placed ephemeral human history and political frontiers within the larger scale of geological time and the history of life on Earth. Despite his initial nationalist conception of nature, Mello Leitao questioned the temporal and geographic limits of the Brazilian nation and came closer to the increasingly internationalist perspective of conservationism.
Editor: Pittsburgh: Latin American Studies Association
Idioma: Inglês

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