Thinking from the South: Euclides da Cunha and the case of Brazilian social thought

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Sephis e-magazine

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

01/01/2010

RESUMO

The article presents the main ideas of Euclides da Cunha (1866-1909), a famous Brazilian intellectual from the beginning of the twentieth-century. Da Cunha was one of the first writers to provide a proto-sociological account of subaltern people in Brazil. The aim of the article is to review his contributions in the light of contemporary discussions concerning postcolonialism and decolonisation.

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euclides da cunha

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