MACEDO, Norryson Darlan da Costa.; APOLINÁRIO, Juciene Ricarte.
Résumé:
The travel literature during the colonial period represented an important source of disclosure
on the Brazilian colony, from its diversity of flora and fauna as its most diverse cultural and
ethnic variations. So thinking this literature served as a vehicle of information for a small
readership that leaned in knowing the traveler reports in perspective and social contexts to
which they were entered. Based on this documentation and select the work object, I came
across a traveler interested in environmental and space theme. Muniz Barreto wasn’t a
naturalist formed in Coimbra, but a military that while naturalist and connoisseur of Natural
History in its proximity tangent, contributed to the knowledge of Brazilian environmental
diversity and its disclosure in Portuguese scientific offices. In this context this production
aims to discuss the views of the nature and indigenous peoples in travel accounts of military
naturalist Domingos Alves Branco Muniz Barreto in Ilheus County, eighteenth century.
