Agostinho da Silva e o Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais (CEAO): a primeira experiência institucional dos estudos africanos no Brasil / Agostinho da Silva and CEAO: one institutional experience of African Studies in Brazil

AUTOR(ES)

Gilson Brandão de Oliveira Junior

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

Discussions about brazilian identity, between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, saw the Negro as a problem for the affirmation of this country as a nation. The interpretation of european precedence, particularly portuguese, was seen as a solution to this problem, to characterize secondary participation of blacks and indians in this process. This is why the first african studies in Brazil appear to explain the viability of the nation in his presence. A pioneer in these studies, Nina Rodrigues favored a "type" specific of African culture, known as nagô. The spread nagô to the understanding of the entire African continent marked the coming generations of researchers. Among them, Gilberto Freyre, expanded the defense of portuguese ancestry with the concept of lusotropicalism. The influence of these scholars has influenced virtually all researchers interested in African issues in the first half of the twentieth century. However, these studies institutionalize would be the initiative of Agostinho da Silva, portuguese intellectual active in the Portuguese Renaissance and Seara Nova, self-exiled in 1944 in Brazil a country he saw as a continuation of an idealized Portugal, would have to task of creating a new civilization based on a luso-brazilian community where he founded and served in various scientific and cultural entities, including the Center for Afro-Oriental Studies (CEAO) in Bahia, 1959. By analyzing the actions of CEAO during the first years of its existence (1959-1961), we find that the ideological influences of previous studies african-Brazilians were merged with the ideals of Agostinho da Silva, began a series of matches with Brazilian and foreign institutions, which greatly contributed to the expansion of Brazils international relations and the continuity and expansion of African studies in Brazil.

ASSUNTO(S)

nagocentrism africa-brazil relations agostinho da silva estudos africanos agostinho da silva relações África-brasil ceao ceao african studies nagocentrismo

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