Dados is one of the most widely-read social sciences journals in Latin America. Created in 1966, it publishes innovative works, originating from academic research, by Brazilian and foreign authors. Edited by IESP-UERJ, it aims to reconcile scientific rigor and academic excellence with an emphasis on public debate based on the analysis of substantive issues of society and politics.
Dados vol. 42 n. 3 Rio de Janeiro 1999
Abstract
This essay offers a preliminary outline of the main aspects of Pará intellectual José Veríssimos theses in the field of ethnography and social thought as addressed to the Amazon society in the latter decades of the nineteenth century and first fifteen years of the twentieth, under the influence of naturalism, evolutionism, and positivism. An analysis is offered of works and texts by Veríssimo that are characterized by their distinctly ethnographic content, based on their connections to the paradigms posited by the men of science belonging to the famous Generation of the Seventies. The essay is particularly concerned with perceiving how Veríssimo saw the question of miscegenation as key to understanding reality in the Amazon.
Keywords: miscegenation, naturalism, evolutionism, positivism, Amazon
DOI: 10.1590/S0011-52581999000300006
José Veríssimo: social thought and ethnography in the Amazon (1877-1915)
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