Paisagem e representação: a Amazônia nos relatos do casal agassiz (1865-1866).

Abstract

This research was conducted with the desire to study Geography as a science able to provide answers to numerous questions and observations made by the nineteenth-century naturalist travelers who passed through the Amazon region, in particular, the observations made by Louis Agassiz Agassiz and his wife Elisabeth who led an expedition to the Amazon between 1865 and 1866. However, using Geography as a science to understand the impressions, this naturalist, a period in which the actual Geography had not yet consolidated their theoretical bases? Therefore this research adhered primarily to perform an elaborate overview of the philosophical which provided a better understanding of the organization and systematization of geographical thought highlighting their precursors as Immanuel Kant, Alexander von Humboldt and Ritter, whereas, after taking possession of this philosophical reading, we sought to discern the influences received these chains in the nascent Geography, in the face of the journey undertaken by Louis Agassiz, whilst grasping their approaches on the multiple landscapes in the Amazon, or the perception of the traveler as the natural and human landscape, responsible for the configuration space explored by the same. Finally, this research attempts to reproduce the path of the traveler, through the preparation of a map that traces the route taken by the Thayer expedition, showing the positions and perceptions geographic traveler along this one-year expedition.