O mestre de Apipucos e o turista aprendiz

This article faces two Brazil’s interpretation ways, according to Mário de Andrade, in Macunaíma and O turista aprendiz (The apprentice tourist), and, on the other hand, Gilberto Freyre, in Casa-grande e senzala. Despite the interpretative differences between these writers, the essay demonstrates that the three works are established on na analysis of the antagonisms since the Brazil’s cultural formation, which are showed sometimes as a vice, sometimes as a resistanceA autora estabelece um confronto entre os modos de interpretação do Brasil a partir das posições de Mário de Andrade, em Macunaíma e O turista aprendiz, e de Gilberto Freyre em Casa-grande e senzala. Apesar das distinções interpretativas dos autores, o texto nos mostra que as obras se articulam em torno da análise de antagonismos da nossa forma­ ção cultural, vistos ora como vício ora como resistênci

Os guardados da viscondessa: fotografia e memória na coleção Ribeiro de Avellar

This paper discusses the theme of family life when Brazil was an empire, using the\ud methodological approach of microhistory and by analyzing personal documents that belonged\ud to the Ribeiro de Avellar family, who were wealthy landowners and proprietors of coffee\ud plantations and slaves in Paty do Alferes, located in the Paraíba River Valley of the Province of\ud Rio de Janeiro. The author focused on the analysis of photographic portraits in order to reflect\ud upon the different means of circulation of images and the prevailing family ideal at the tim