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[Josué de Castro, author of a didactic text on geography]
1Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; membro pesquisador, Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre - RS - Brasil. brenoviotto@hotmail.com.
Abstract:
This text examines Josué de Castro's Geografia humana: estudo da paisagem cultural do mundo, based on the theory of Pierre Bourdieu. We investigate Castro's professional and academic activity during the 1930s, focusing on his educational strategies, international connections, and the text's editing process. Castro's work is shown to be unique for its critique of race and climate as determinants for human geography and its sensitivity to popular culture. Our analysis highlights the text's contribution to geography, with the development and questioning of concepts like race, acclimatization and acculturation, in dialog with anthropology. We also note ideas that appear later in Castro's book Geografia da fome.
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