Abstract

CAPILE, Bruno; FRANCA, Ana Marcela  and  SALES, Gabriel Paes da Silva. The Shared Agency of Plants and Humans in the Elaboration of the Landscape Mosaic of Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro: a Methodological Proposal. Anu.hist.reg.front. [online]. 2021, vol.26, n.2, pp.49-80.  Epub May 31, 2021. ISSN 0122-2066.  https://doi.org/10.18273/revanu.v26n2-2021002.

The iconographies about Nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, and the Brazilian identity itself were created mainly by a diversity that included native and exotic factors of flora, fauna, societies, and cultures as encompassing the foreign look itself. Using the images only as an illustration, or perceiving them in a fragmented way, results in the limitation of their analysis. By using iconography as a primary source for studies of environmental humanities, it is possible to make a more integrated reading of past landscapes, jointly highlighting botanical, geographic, cultural aspects, among others. Thus, it is proposed an interdisciplinary analysis of the images, in which it is sought to highlight the shared agency of flora and the work of the enslaved black people in conjunction with the foreign gaze. Through this approach, it is demonstrated that these iconographies can reveal the interaction between human and non-human agents in the transformation processes of the environments portrayed.

Keywords : Latin American History; Art History; Methodology; Landscape; Environment; Brazil.

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