Richard Francis Burton's Brazil (1865 1868): Descriptions of nature and population representations

Paying attention to the traveller's perception, sensitive to the mechanisms they use, implies understanding their experiences as collectively produced representations, in such a way that it is a matter of attributing meaning to a given reality. As they are not neutral discourses, representations reveal authorities, choices, conceptions, strategies, conflicts, etc. Based on this assumption, the narrative produced by Richard Francis Burton (1831-1890) expresses the way he felt and classified the reality he experienced; likewise, his accounts resonated with his eccentricities, his stance as an English traveller, curious, erudite, adventurous, and traveller-writer. We will analytically address his travel diaries, his descriptions, and his trajectory, especially the period between 1865 and 1869, when he served as British Consul in the city of Santos. The analysis of Burton's work on Brazil is relevant and interesting because he was a traveller who travelled through the mountains of Minas Gerais and sailed down the São Francisco River to the sea during a period of social, political, and economic change in Brazil.

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