{"title":"Deconstructing the Atlases: Jaime Cortesão and the Transformation of the Atlas Histórico do Brasil into the Atlas Histórico Escolar","authors":"Renato Amado Peixoto","doi":"10.3138/cart-2021-0018","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"RÉSUMÉ:Le projet d’un Atlas Histórico do Brasil (« Atlas historique du Brésil »), proposé en 1938 par le ministère des Affaires étrangères du Brésil à la veille de la commémoration du 50e anniversaire de la République, s’est concrétisé en 1959 sous le titre d’Atlas Histórico Escolar (« Atlas historique scolaire »). Conçu comme un outil d’apprentissage et de mémorisation de l’histoire nationale et des aspirations pacifiques, humanistes et internationales du Brésil, l’ouvrage enseignait aux élèves le rôle des diplomates à cet égard. En examinant la transformation de l’Atlas Histórico do Brasil en Atlas Histórico Escolar, nous observons la récupération et le dépassement de contenus antérieurs, celui notamment des atlas géographiques brésiliens, et nous discernons les disputes et les tensions qui ont animé sa production. Notre étude, en éclairant la production des atlas historiques dans leur ensemble, nous permet de repenser le rôle de l’histoire de la cartographie en rapport à sa théorie, et suggère qu’il est possible d’envisager une analyse non-régulière et non-linéaire des atlas et des cartes.ABSTRACT:The Atlas Histórico do Brasil (Historical Atlas of Brazil) project was proposed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1938, on the eve of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the republic, and materialized in 1959 in the Atlas Histórico Escolar (Historical School Atlas). This atlas was composed as a didactic and mnemonic device of the national historical formation and the peaceful, humanistic, and global projection of Brazil, instructing students about the importance of diplomats on this path. Examining the transformation of the Atlas Histórico do Brasil into the Atlas Histórico Escolar allows us to observe the overtaking and recovery of previous content, especially from the Brazilian geographic atlases, and to discern the disputes and tensions that were involved in its creation. This investigation allows us to clarify the production of historical atlases as a whole, contributing to rethinking the role of the history of cartography in relation to its theory, and suggesting the possibility of a non-regular and non-linear analysis of atlases and maps.","PeriodicalId":46104,"journal":{"name":"Cartographica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cartographica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cart-2021-0018","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"GEOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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RÉSUMÉ:Le projet d’un Atlas Histórico do Brasil (« Atlas historique du Brésil »), proposé en 1938 par le ministère des Affaires étrangères du Brésil à la veille de la commémoration du 50e anniversaire de la République, s’est concrétisé en 1959 sous le titre d’Atlas Histórico Escolar (« Atlas historique scolaire »). Conçu comme un outil d’apprentissage et de mémorisation de l’histoire nationale et des aspirations pacifiques, humanistes et internationales du Brésil, l’ouvrage enseignait aux élèves le rôle des diplomates à cet égard. En examinant la transformation de l’Atlas Histórico do Brasil en Atlas Histórico Escolar, nous observons la récupération et le dépassement de contenus antérieurs, celui notamment des atlas géographiques brésiliens, et nous discernons les disputes et les tensions qui ont animé sa production. Notre étude, en éclairant la production des atlas historiques dans leur ensemble, nous permet de repenser le rôle de l’histoire de la cartographie en rapport à sa théorie, et suggère qu’il est possible d’envisager une analyse non-régulière et non-linéaire des atlas et des cartes.ABSTRACT:The Atlas Histórico do Brasil (Historical Atlas of Brazil) project was proposed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1938, on the eve of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the republic, and materialized in 1959 in the Atlas Histórico Escolar (Historical School Atlas). This atlas was composed as a didactic and mnemonic device of the national historical formation and the peaceful, humanistic, and global projection of Brazil, instructing students about the importance of diplomats on this path. Examining the transformation of the Atlas Histórico do Brasil into the Atlas Histórico Escolar allows us to observe the overtaking and recovery of previous content, especially from the Brazilian geographic atlases, and to discern the disputes and tensions that were involved in its creation. This investigation allows us to clarify the production of historical atlases as a whole, contributing to rethinking the role of the history of cartography in relation to its theory, and suggesting the possibility of a non-regular and non-linear analysis of atlases and maps.
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Cartographica is dedicated to publishing articles on all aspects of cartographic and geovisualization research while maintaining its tradition of publishing material on cartographic thought, the history of cartography, and cartography and society. Cartographica also plans to consolidate its trend towards publishing research contributions that focus primarily on geographic information. Each volume of Cartographica is comprised of four issues: two or three regular issues and one or two single-topic monographs. These special monograph issues, accommodating book-length manuscripts, provide an extensive look at one particular area of cartography.