Portuguese Studies articles from March 2006

Portuguese Studies archives from March 2006

Introductory note.
March 22, 2006... Portuguese Studies is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the cultures of the Portuguese speaking world published in English. Literary studies, the 'anchor' of this journal, are engaged in constant dialogue with history, the visual arts,...

Levi-Strauss's journey to the Tropics.(Claude Levi-Strauss)
March 22, 2006... Translated by Marcel de Lima 'All ethnography is part philosophy, and a good deal of the rest is confession.' Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures As the first chapters of Tristes Tropiques unfold, Claude Levi-Strauss...

A bay to be dreamed of: British visions of Rio de Janeiro.
March 22, 2006... '... Finally there is Rio Bay--the Bay of Bays--to be expected, to be dreamed of' (1)--thus did Richard Burton announce his arrival in Rio de Janeiro, at the end of an uneventful sea voyage from England in 1865, en route for Santos, where he...

Pintura de historia e razao de Estado: um estudo sobre a fundacao da nacao Brasileira.
March 22, 2006... 'Os olhos nao veem coisas mas figuras de coisas que significam outras coisas: o torques indica a casa do tira-dentes; o jarro, a taberna; as alabardas, o corpo de guarda [...]. A coisa e reconhecida pelo simbolo de alguma outra coisa.' ...

Overdrawn from life: abolitionist argument and ethnographic authority in the Brazilian 'Artistic Travels' of J. M. Rugendas, 1827-35.
March 22, 2006... When Bavarian artist Johann Moritz Rugendas composed his 'Blacks in the Ship's Hold', a strange thing happened on the way from the drawing board to the lithographer's stone. Between his two known sketches of the subject, presumably based on...

From the hills to the coastal towns: the Tras-os-Montes regional association movement in Portugal and in the Diaspora.
March 22, 2006... Translated by Richard Wall The aim of this article is to analyse the development of the Tras-os-Montes regional voluntary association movement (both in Portugal and in the wider world) in the light of the concept of social capital,...

'The friendship of kings was in the Ambassadors': Portuguese diplomatic embassies in Asia and Africa during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
March 22, 2006... There has been from the very beginnings discussion as to the nature of Portuguese and European power in Asia in the early modern period prior to the Battle of Plassey and colonialism in all of its territorial manifestations. (1) Historians have...

'Um James Bond subdesenvolvido': the ideological work of the Angolan detective in Pepetela's Jaime Bunda novels.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... At the outset of his literary career Pepetela stated that: 'afirmo que nao ha, nao pode haver, a criacao dum pais verdadeiramente independente sem uma literatura nacional propria, que mostre ao povo aquilo que o povo sempre soube: isto e, que...