Neil Safier
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 343797 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Neil Safier |
| PRENOMES | Neil |
| SOBRENOME | Safier |
| ASSINATURA | SAFIER N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 182 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil
Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment
As we face new global challenges – from climate change to the international political order – the need to re-examine the historical roots of cosmopolitanism and liberal principles on a global scale has become increasingly central to the political conversation. Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment brings together leading scholars in cultural history, the history of ideas and global politics in order to reassess the complexity of cosmopolitanism d…
The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence
Bringing together experts across Latin America, North America, and Spain, The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence innovatively revisits Latin American independence within a larger regional, temporal, and thematic framework to highlight its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. The volume offers a synthetic yet comprehensive tool for understanding and assessing the most current studies in the field and their analytical c…
Natural Histories of Remembrance and Forgetting
While the conventional understanding within many Latin American historiographical traditions is that science went hand in hand with political liberation from the metropole, this chapter seeks to elucidate the ways in which the public sphere in both Spanish America and Brazil cultivated very different narratives and historiographies. In Spanish America, the republican public sphere aggressively set out to erase all connections between Spain, monar…
Geographies of Cosmopolitanism
The interconnections within the natural world as observed by European explorers and armchair cosmographers connected meaningfully in the eighteenth century with the longer history of early modern cosmopolitanism, relying on an evolving understanding of the globe and its peoples in all their particularities and diversity. This chapter examines the tenets of eighteenth-century cosmopolitanism through the natural sciences by examining how individual…
Mapping Nature across the Americas
This richly illustrated and carefully edited volume deserves high praise and will be of great interest to Latin Americanists across the geographical and temporal spectrum. Twelve focused essays, a comparative epilogue, and an eloquent introduction by the two coeditors reflect the results from a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar held at the Newberry Library in Chicago in 2014. As the introductory essay makes clear, this collecti…
Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met
Humboldt ou le temps des scientifiques
Masked observers and mask collectors
This essay explores the culture of mask use and mask collection in eighteenth-century Amazonia as a way of bringing together the reciprocal observations undertaken by indigenous, European, and peoples of mixed race and identity in South America during the colonial period. By focusing on masks as physical objects containing attributes that can be studied with reference to historical and contemporary indigenous Amazonian groups, it attempts to disr…
Measuring the New World
Prior to 1735, South America was largely terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a joint French and Spanish mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the Earth at the Equator - an expedition that would put South America on the map and in the minds of Europeans for centuries to come. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission's particip…
Beyond Brazilian Nature
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The Legacy of Dutch Brazil
This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil. In doing so, this book proposes a radical shift in interpretation. The Dutch Atlantic is widely perceived as an incongruity among more durable European empires, whereas Brazil occupies an exceptional place in the history of Latin America, which leads to a view o…
The Tenacious Travels of the Torrid Zone and the Global Dimensions of Geographical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century
This article sets out to explore the longevity and tenacity of the torrid zone as an explanatory mechanism for describing the cultural characteristics of those populations living between the tropics during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By examining a series of colonizing missions and scientific expeditions to the New World, it argues that long before the iconic voyage of Alexander von Humboldt, which is thought to inaugurate a modern …
Thinking Atlantically
Although he may never have set out to become an expert in the field of Atlantic history, Philip D. Morgan, Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, is today one of the leading specialists on the history of the Atlantic world. His most recent edited collections – Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal (Oxford University Press, 2009; co-edited with Jack P. Greene) and The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World (Oxford Univers…
Of mosquitoes and men
In April of 2011, John McNeill accepted my invitation to speak at the University of British Columbia as part of the history department's year-long thematic series entitled “Disasters and Diasporas: Entangled Histories of Empire and Environment.” No one better, I thought, to close out a year of reflections on this topic than Professor McNeill, whose recent book Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (Cambridge, 2010)…
AHR Conversation
Bertrand Daugeron Collections naturalistes entre science et empires, 1763-1804 Paris, Muséum d'histoire naturelle, 2009,635p
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Transformations de la zone torride
Cet article envisage l'histoire environnementale des tropiques à travers l'analyse des techniques narratives des individus qui ont parcouru les paysages équatoriaux de l'Amérique du Sud au XVIIIesiècle. À quelques exceptions près, les spécialistes d'histoire environnementale n'ont pas tenu compte des pratiques d'écriture qui ont accompagné les observationssuretdansla nature, une relation avec le monde naturel encouragée par des techniques de coll…
Atlantic soundings
Itineraries of Atlantic science
In the spring of 1788 not far from Buenos Aires, the village of Lujan woke up to an astonishing archaeological discovery. Local residents had found an extraordinary set of monstrous bones along the
Global Knowledge on the Move
Since Bruno Latour's discussion of a Sakhalin island map used by La Pérouse as part of a global network of "immutable mobiles," the commensurability of European and non-European knowledge has become an important issue for historians of science. But recent studies have challenged these dichotomous categories as reductive and inadequate for understanding the fluid nature of identities, their relational origins, and their historically constituted ch…
Como era ardiloso o meu francês
Este artigo discute as ferramentas bibliográficas e etnográficas utilizadas por Charles-Marie de la Condamine (1701-1774) ao representar o rio Amazonas ao público europeu em meados do século XVIII. Partindo de uma análise das suas descrições de populações indígenas e das fontes que La Condamine aproveitou ao longo de sua viagem rio abaixo, destacam-se as estratégias narrativas que lhe possibilitaram escrever um texto repleto de observações supost…
Fruitless Botany
After a decade of wandering through the highland scrub and tropical forests of equatorial South America, Joseph de Jussieu freely offered the following reflection: “Live first, then philosophize.” This chapter examines several specific moments in Joseph de Jussieu’s South American itinerary as benchmarks to judge the shifting identities of an extra-European medical, botanical, and philosophical career. Jussieu’s initial contact with non-European …
Cidadãos e soberanos
The imperial map
Maps from virtually every culture and period - from Babylonian world maps to Saul Steinberg's famous New Yorker cover illustration, 'View of the World from 9th Avenue' - convey our tendency to see our communities as the center of the world (if not the universe) and, by implication, as superior to anything beyond these immediate boundaries. Mapping has long been a tool by which ruling bodies could claim their entitlement to lands and peoples. It i…
Measuring the New World
Prior to 1735, South America was largely terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a joint French and Spanish mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the Earth at the Equa-tor—an expedition that would put South America on the map and in the minds of Europeans for centuries to come. Join us as Neil Safier places this particular scientific endeav…
Measuring the New World
Prior to 1735, South America was largely terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a joint French and Spanish mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the Earth at the Equator - an expedition that would put South America on the map and in the minds of Europeans for centuries to come. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission's particip…
Global Knowledge on the Move
Since Bruno Latour's discussion of a Sakhalin island map used by La Pérouse as part of a global network of "immutable mobiles," the commensurability of European and non-European knowledge has become an important issue for historians of science. But recent studies have challenged these dichotomous categories as reductive and inadequate for understanding the fluid nature of identities, their relational origins, and their historically constituted ch…
AHR Conversation
How to Write the History of the New World
Book Review| October 01 2004 How to Write the History of the New World By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. (Stanford, : Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii + 450 pp., introduction, figures, plates,bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.) Neil Safier Neil Safier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 848–852. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-4-848 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn E…
Every day that I travel ? is a page that I turn
In this article Neil Safier reconstitutes the field libraries of the Portuguese ouvidor Francisco Xavier Ribeiro de Sampaio and the Luso-Brazilian naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, seeking to understand how their experiences in the Amazon basin were shaped and molded by their reading practices. In Sampaio's manuscript travel log, the titles and scattered citations of printed texts provided a layer of depth and sophistication to a narrative…
The Tenacious Travels of the Torrid Zone and the Global Dimensions of Geographical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century
This article sets out to explore the longevity and tenacity of the torrid zone as an explanatory mechanism for describing the cultural characteristics of those populations living between the tropics during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By examining a series of colonizing missions and scientific expeditions to the New World, it argues that long before the iconic voyage of Alexander von Humboldt, which is thought to inaugurate a modern …
Itineraries of Atlantic science
In the spring of 1788 not far from Buenos Aires, the village of Lujan woke up to an astonishing archaeological discovery. Local residents had found an extraordinary set of monstrous bones along the
Masked observers and mask collectors
This essay explores the culture of mask use and mask collection in eighteenth-century Amazonia as a way of bringing together the reciprocal observations undertaken by indigenous, European, and peoples of mixed race and identity in South America during the colonial period. By focusing on masks as physical objects containing attributes that can be studied with reference to historical and contemporary indigenous Amazonian groups, it attempts to disr…
Transformations de la zone torride
Cet article envisage l'histoire environnementale des tropiques à travers l'analyse des techniques narratives des individus qui ont parcouru les paysages équatoriaux de l'Amérique du Sud au XVIIIesiècle. À quelques exceptions près, les spécialistes d'histoire environnementale n'ont pas tenu compte des pratiques d'écriture qui ont accompagné les observationssuretdansla nature, une relation avec le monde naturel encouragée par des techniques de coll…
Como era ardiloso o meu francês
Este artigo discute as ferramentas bibliográficas e etnográficas utilizadas por Charles-Marie de la Condamine (1701-1774) ao representar o rio Amazonas ao público europeu em meados do século XVIII. Partindo de uma análise das suas descrições de populações indígenas e das fontes que La Condamine aproveitou ao longo de sua viagem rio abaixo, destacam-se as estratégias narrativas que lhe possibilitaram escrever um texto repleto de observações supost…
Atlantic soundings
The 19th international conference on the history of cartography
Espafia. The 19th International Conference on the History of Cartography gathered roughly two hundred participants from some thirty-one countries to examine, among other things, the cartographical legacy of peninsular Spain and its overseas colonial empire. Notwithstanding this thematic focus, paper topics ranged from desert surveys of Libya and medieval maps of England to mapping projects of Japanese colonies and prose cartographies. The recentl…
Unveiling the Amazon to European Science and Society
Unveiling the Amazon to European Science and Society
(2001). Unveiling the Amazon to European Science and Society: The Reading and Reception of La Condamine's Relation abrégée d'un Voyage fait dans l' intérieur de l' Amérique méridionale (1745) Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 33-47
Unveiling the Amazon to European Science and Society
Unveiling the Amazon to European Science and Society
(2001). Unveiling the Amazon to European Science and Society: The Reading and Reception of La Condamine's Relation abrégée d'un Voyage fait dans l' intérieur de l' Amérique méridionale (1745) Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 33-47
The 19th international conference on the history of cartography
Espafia. The 19th International Conference on the History of Cartography gathered roughly two hundred participants from some thirty-one countries to examine, among other things, the cartographical legacy of peninsular Spain and its overseas colonial empire. Notwithstanding this thematic focus, paper topics ranged from desert surveys of Libya and medieval maps of England to mapping projects of Japanese colonies and prose cartographies. The recentl…
"...To Collect and Abridge...Without Changing Anything Essential"
My mother's uncle ... gave me a long account of the origin of [the Inca] Kings ... which I have attempted to translate faithfully from my native language, that of the Inca, to a foreign tongue, Castilian, although I have certainly not written it with the magnificence [majestad] with which the Inca spoke nor with all the meaning that the words of that language contain. ... Instead, I have shortened [his account] by taking out some of the things th…
How to Write the History of the New World
Book Review| October 01 2004 How to Write the History of the New World By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. (Stanford, : Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii + 450 pp., introduction, figures, plates,bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.) Neil Safier Neil Safier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 848–852. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-4-848 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn E…
Every day that I travel ? is a page that I turn
In this article Neil Safier reconstitutes the field libraries of the Portuguese ouvidor Francisco Xavier Ribeiro de Sampaio and the Luso-Brazilian naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, seeking to understand how their experiences in the Amazon basin were shaped and molded by their reading practices. In Sampaio's manuscript travel log, the titles and scattered citations of printed texts provided a layer of depth and sophistication to a narrative…
Fruitless Botany
After a decade of wandering through the highland scrub and tropical forests of equatorial South America, Joseph de Jussieu freely offered the following reflection: “Live first, then philosophize.” This chapter examines several specific moments in Joseph de Jussieu’s South American itinerary as benchmarks to judge the shifting identities of an extra-European medical, botanical, and philosophical career. Jussieu’s initial contact with non-European …
Cidadãos e soberanos
Measuring the New World
Prior to 1735, South America was largely terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a joint French and Spanish mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the Earth at the Equa-tor—an expedition that would put South America on the map and in the minds of Europeans for centuries to come. Join us as Neil Safier places this particular scientific endeav…
Como era ardiloso o meu francês
Este artigo discute as ferramentas bibliográficas e etnográficas utilizadas por Charles-Marie de la Condamine (1701-1774) ao representar o rio Amazonas ao público europeu em meados do século XVIII. Partindo de uma análise das suas descrições de populações indígenas e das fontes que La Condamine aproveitou ao longo de sua viagem rio abaixo, destacam-se as estratégias narrativas que lhe possibilitaram escrever um texto repleto de observações supost…
Atlantic soundings
Itineraries of Atlantic science
In the spring of 1788 not far from Buenos Aires, the village of Lujan woke up to an astonishing archaeological discovery. Local residents had found an extraordinary set of monstrous bones along the
Global Knowledge on the Move
Since Bruno Latour's discussion of a Sakhalin island map used by La Pérouse as part of a global network of "immutable mobiles," the commensurability of European and non-European knowledge has become an important issue for historians of science. But recent studies have challenged these dichotomous categories as reductive and inadequate for understanding the fluid nature of identities, their relational origins, and their historically constituted ch…
AHR Conversation
Bertrand Daugeron Collections naturalistes entre science et empires, 1763-1804 Paris, Muséum d'histoire naturelle, 2009,635p
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Transformations de la zone torride
Cet article envisage l'histoire environnementale des tropiques à travers l'analyse des techniques narratives des individus qui ont parcouru les paysages équatoriaux de l'Amérique du Sud au XVIIIesiècle. À quelques exceptions près, les spécialistes d'histoire environnementale n'ont pas tenu compte des pratiques d'écriture qui ont accompagné les observationssuretdansla nature, une relation avec le monde naturel encouragée par des techniques de coll…
Of mosquitoes and men
In April of 2011, John McNeill accepted my invitation to speak at the University of British Columbia as part of the history department's year-long thematic series entitled “Disasters and Diasporas: Entangled Histories of Empire and Environment.” No one better, I thought, to close out a year of reflections on this topic than Professor McNeill, whose recent book Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (Cambridge, 2010)…
Thinking Atlantically
Although he may never have set out to become an expert in the field of Atlantic history, Philip D. Morgan, Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, is today one of the leading specialists on the history of the Atlantic world. His most recent edited collections – Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal (Oxford University Press, 2009; co-edited with Jack P. Greene) and The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World (Oxford Univers…
Beyond Brazilian Nature
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Legacy of Dutch Brazil
This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil. In doing so, this book proposes a radical shift in interpretation. The Dutch Atlantic is widely perceived as an incongruity among more durable European empires, whereas Brazil occupies an exceptional place in the history of Latin America, which leads to a view o…
The Tenacious Travels of the Torrid Zone and the Global Dimensions of Geographical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century
This article sets out to explore the longevity and tenacity of the torrid zone as an explanatory mechanism for describing the cultural characteristics of those populations living between the tropics during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By examining a series of colonizing missions and scientific expeditions to the New World, it argues that long before the iconic voyage of Alexander von Humboldt, which is thought to inaugurate a modern …
Measuring the New World
Prior to 1735, South America was largely terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a joint French and Spanish mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the Earth at the Equator - an expedition that would put South America on the map and in the minds of Europeans for centuries to come. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission's particip…
Masked observers and mask collectors
This essay explores the culture of mask use and mask collection in eighteenth-century Amazonia as a way of bringing together the reciprocal observations undertaken by indigenous, European, and peoples of mixed race and identity in South America during the colonial period. By focusing on masks as physical objects containing attributes that can be studied with reference to historical and contemporary indigenous Amazonian groups, it attempts to disr…
Humboldt ou le temps des scientifiques
Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met
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