O Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA: trajetória institucional por meio de suas práticas científicas, 1954-1975.

Abstract

Analysis of the scientific knowledge production process as practiced at the National Research Institution of Amazonia - INPA, from 1954 to 1975, highlighting its contribution to the institutionalization of natural sciences in the Amazonian region, through annual reports of the activities developed at the Institute, which became fundamental records of scientific fieldtrips reports and compromises assumed by the Government and the directors of the Institution. This research intends to both point out the possibilities of this material as a resource for recovering old records and to understand how a determined step of its evolution as an institution turned to scientific production, took place.