Produção Nacional
Mapping Cross-Cultural Exchange: Jaime Cortesão’s Dialogues and Documents on the Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Brazilian Exploration
2020; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/978-3-030-49516-9_1
ISSN2520-1387
Autores Tópico(s)History of Science and Medicine
ResumoThis chapter aims to explore Jaime Cortesão’s textual and visual narratives about indigenous knowledge. Although many scholars investigated Cortesão’s production during his exile in Brazil (1940–1957), little attention has been given to study how he investigated the role of indigenous knowledge in territorial exploration and mapping. To address this topic, I will identify debates and documents explored by Cortesão to approach indigenous maps. The chapter is divided into two sections. First, I will explore Cortesão’s dialogues, considering how academic debates and references encouraged him to study indigenous people’s spatial knowledge. Then, I will stress some textual and visual documents selected by Cortesão to discuss indigenous maps as a specific category. In addition to explorer’s narratives, Cortesão presented a group of maps from 1721 to 1724, discovered by him at the National Library of Rio de Janeiro and classified as bandeirantes due to its indigenous influence. By identifying Cortesão’s dialogues and documents, my primary intention here is to discuss his comments on indigenous mapping in the light of postcolonial and decolonial approaches to understanding exploration maps as co-produced and hybrid artefacts.
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