Olhar de um viajante do século XIX

as vilas de Nova Olivença e São Jorge dos Ilhéus nos relatos do Principe Maximiliano de Wied-neuwied

Abstract

This paper seeks to understand in the speech of a 19th century’s traveler, the botanist and naturalist Maximilian, Prince of Wied-Neuwied (1782-1867), the daily life of the Nova de Olivença and São Jorge dos Ilhéus villages located on the southern coast of Bahia in 1815, period when he visited these lands. The study deepens mainly in the way indigenous peoples are portrayed in his travel diaries, which later resulted in the book Journey to Brazil. It is interesting to emphasize that since the 1960s, the travel reports have been analyzed for historians, anthropologists and other areas of the human sciences. However, it is noticed that the visit to Olivença and Ilhéus when they still were villages, for the conspicuous Prince of Wied-Neuwied, as for so many other foreigners have been little studied.