Article ID: CBB000831580

Natureza, colonização e utopia na obra de João Daniel (2007)

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Costa, Kelerson Semerene (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 14 suppl.
Issue: suppl.
Pages: 95-112


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Translated title: [Nature, Colonization, and Utopia in the Works of João Daniel] In Portuguese.
Language: Portuguese

The article analyzes certain aspects of "Tesouro descoberto no rio Amazonas" (Treasure discovered on the Amazon River), written by João Daniel (1722-76) during his time in the State of Maranhão e Grão-Pará as a Jesuit missionary between 1741 and 1757; the priest was banished to Lisbon two years before the Company of Jesus was expelled from Portuguese America. This unique record of the mid-eighteenth-century Amazon is a compendium on the region's wealth and potential. Most importantly, it put forward a colonization project that was critical of the model then in place; the new proposal was an integrated whole which took environmental conditions, technology, and social relations into account in the organization of local society. In centering his project on the issue of labor, João Daniel revives, as a metaphor, the idea of the Amazon as an earthly paradise-a notion that had characterized seventeenth-century missionary literature but was practically abandoned in the eighteenth century. Keywords : Amazon; colonization; nature; missionaries.

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Description Analyzes the work “Tesouro descoberto no rio Amazonas” by the Jesuit João Daniel (1722--1776) written in the mid 18th century during his time in the State of Maranhão e Grão-Pará.


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Authors & Contributors
Heer, Esther Schmid
Altić, Mirela
Rafael Rogério Nascimento dos Santos
Ronald Raminelli
Fajardo, José del Rey
Klein, Nikolaus
Concepts
Missionaries and missions
Colonialism
Portugal, colonies
Science and religion
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Knowledge circulation
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
16th century
19th century
Early modern
20th century
Places
Brazil
Amazon River Region (South America)
South America
Portugal
India
New Granada (Spanish colony)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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