Wilderness and the Brazilian Mind (I): Nation and Nature in Brazil from the 1920s to the 1940s

This text examines selected writings produced by four leading Brazilian conservation scientists active in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Alberto José Sampaio (1881–1946), Armando Magalhães Corrêa (1889–1944), Cândido de Mello Leitão (1886–1948), and Frederico Carlos Hoehne (1882–1959) were prominent m...

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Published inEnvironmental history Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 724 - 750
Main Authors De Andrade Franco, José Luiz, Augusto Drummond, José
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago Oxford University Press 01.10.2008
American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press
Subjects
Animals
Conservation
Conservation movement
Environmental conservation
Environmental history
Environmental protection
Environmentalists
Fauna
Flora
History
Interest groups
Nature
Nature conservation
Plants
Political activism
Wilderness
Brazil
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Summary:This text examines selected writings produced by four leading Brazilian conservation scientists active in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Alberto José Sampaio (1881–1946), Armando Magalhães Corrêa (1889–1944), Cândido de Mello Leitão (1886–1948), and Frederico Carlos Hoehne (1882–1959) were prominent members of a “second generation” of Brazilian conservationists. Although they died on the average about sixty years ago, they have receded from memory and their publications have become all but inaccessible. We argue that their ideas, research, and institution-building efforts were highly pertinent and influential in their own time and remain valuable today as building blocks of Brazilian conservation awareness and policies. This article brings together biographical and professional data about each author and examines the texts that best illustrate their range of concerns, their sources, and their priorities in the field of nature conservation.
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holds a PhD in History (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil). He is Associate Researcher at the Center for Sustainable Development, at the same university. His current research is focused on a group of Brazilian conservationists-scientists active from the 1950s to the 1990s and the history of Brazilian national parks and other conservation units. He is coauthor of O Estado das Áreas Protegidas no Brasil-2005 (2006), a comprehensive assessment of all of Brazil's federal and state conservation units.
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ISSN:1084-5453
1930-8892
DOI:10.1093/envhis/13.4.724