Banca de DEFESA: JOSE WALBER VIEIRA DE OLIVEIRA

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STUDENT : JOSE WALBER VIEIRA DE OLIVEIRA
DATE: 20/03/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Meet - Online
TITLE:

“TO TRAVEL TO AFRICA AND TRAVERSE PORTUGUESE OVERSEAS PROVINCES”: LUÍS DA CÂMARA CASCUDO AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LUSO-TROPICALIST ITINERARY (1962–1967)

KEY WORDS:

Câmara Cascudo; Portuguese Africa; Luso-Tropicalism.

PAGES: 190
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates the construction of a Luso-tropicalist political-cultural itinerary of the intellectual from Rio Grande do Norte, Luís da Câmara Cascudo (1898–1986), based on his journey to Africa, carried out in 1963, when he left Brazil to study the roots of Brazilian food on that continent. We consider that this trajectory began in 1962, when Assis Chateaubriand extended to him an invitation to develop an ethnographic research project for the Sociedade de Estudos Históricos Dom Pedro II, and ended in 1967, with the publication of the last work resulting from that project. The journey reinforced intellectual interests that ran through his work as a folklorist, granting him a role as a political mediator and resulting in a scientific production that dialogued with Portuguese colonial policy. Thus, the central objective of this work is to problematize Câmara Cascudo’s journey to the so-called Portuguese Africa, seeking to understand how his intellectual production was constructed in such a way as to strengthen the idea of Luso-tropicalism, which presented Portugal as a civilizing empire of the African colonies. The theoretical framework that supports our reflections is grounded in authors such as Jean-François Sirinelli (2003), who discusses the concept of the intellectual; Angela Castro Gomes and Patricia Santos Hansen (2016), who explore the notion of political and cultural mediator; Michel Foucault (2013), who allowed me to mobilize an idea of relational space; and Claudia Castelo (1999), whose work sheds light on the relations between Luso-tropicalism and intellectual practices. As methodological procedures, we examined period sources from the time: articles, interviews, and reports about the journey, as well as correspondence between Cascudo and other intellectuals, telegrams sent to the Portuguese government, and records of the mission, such as notes, documentary, and photographs. We also analyzed the author’s bibliographical production related to the theme, especially A Cozinha Africana no Brasil (1964), Made in Africa (1965), and História da Alimentação no Brasil (1967), works that resulted directly from this experience. All this material was investigated in light of discourse analysis, according to Michel Foucault (2004), with the aim of understanding how the Luso-tropicalist idea was elaborated in the thought of Luís da Câmara Cascudo based on his journey to Portuguese Africa.

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