Os recursos naturais da mata atlântica na perspectiva do naturalista Domingos Alves Branco Muniz Barreto, comarca de Ilhéus, século XVIII.

Abstract

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.