Brazilianist
Brazilianist (also Brasilianista, in Portuguese language) is a scholar, either a non-Brazilian or a Brazilian living abroad, who specializes in studying, researching, teaching and publishing about Brazil - for example, about Brazilian history, geography, culture, politics and/or language(s). There is great diversity of interests amongst Brazilianists.[1]
Origins and use of the term
The term "Brazilianist" supposedly originated in Brazil in the 1960s or perhaps a little earlier and was coined to designate scholars from the United States who were receiving grants to study Brazil at the time when the U.S. had special political interests in that country. However, that is a view perhaps a little too narrow as to the motivating factors which led these many social scientists to do research on Brazilian issues.[citation needed]
In the 1970s and well into the 1980s when the US-Brazilian relations cooled off the Brazilian press gave much attention to Brazilianists themselves but not much was discussed about their arguments and findings. At that time the term Brazilianist more frequently had something of a pejorative tone.[citation needed]
In more recent years there has been a greater acknowledgment of the body of works produced by the Brazilianist scholars. Starting in the 1990s the works of Brazilianist began to be actively introduced in the curricula of major Brazilian universities.[citation needed]
Today some of the works produced by Brazilianists are known well beyond the academic circles in Brazil.[citation needed]
Brazilian and Portuguese dictionaries define a “Brazilianist” as a scholar, most usually a non-Brazilian, dedicated to Brazilian studies.[2]
List of notable Brazilianists
The following is a partial list of people who have studied Brazil in a multi-disciplinary fashion and can be considered Brazilianists.[3]
- Roger Bastide
- Bertha Becker
- Leslie Bethell
- Jean Blondel
- Charles Boxer
- Helen Caldwell
- Robert Carneiro
- Ronald H. Chilcote
- Shelton H. Davis
- Warren Dean
- Carl N. Degler
- Peter B. Evans
- Philip Fearnside
- Albert Fishlow
- Richard Graham
- James N. Green
- John Hemming
- Herbert S. Klein
- Jacques Lambert
- Ruth Landes
- William M. Ledingham
- Anthony Leeds
- Jeffrey Lesser
- Robert Levine
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Thomas Lovejoy
- Frederick C. Luebke
- Kenneth Maxwell
- David Maybury-Lewis
- Peter J. McDonough
- Betty Jane Meggers
- Alfred Metraux
- Pierre Monbeig
- Paul Rivet
- Antonius Robben
- Riordan Roett
- Anthony John R. Russell-Wood
- Wilhelm Schmidt
- Philippe C. Schmitter
- Ronald Schneider
- Stuart B. Schwartz
- Thomas Skidmore
- Stanley J. Stein
- Alfred Stepan
- Georg Thomas
- Thomas J. Trebat
- Maxine Margolis
- Pierre Fatumbi Verger
- Charles Wagley
- Paul Wellman
- John Wirth
- Jean Ziegler
- Christian Feest
- Johann Natterer
- Hans Staden
- Patricia Moura Galli
References
- ^ http://carto.educ-br.fr/resultats/?search_region=0&search_type=0&search_formation=0&search_aire_geo=16&search_periode=0&search_domaine=0&search_professeur Brésilianistes en France - Liste - Cartographie des Études Lusophones
- ^ http://michaelis.uol.com.br/busca?id=lXKa Dicionário Michaelis
- ^ Massi, Fernanda and Heloisa Pontes. 1992. Guia Bibliografico dos Brasilianistas. Editora Sumare.
External links
- On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason, by Pierre Bourdieu
- Brazil and Brazilianists in the North American context, in Portuguese, University of São Paulo
- The Brazilianist Online
- Brasilianismo, Brazilianists e Discursos Brasileiros (Brazilianism, Brazilianists and Brazilian Discourses) (PDF) by Fernanda Peixoto Massi.