Jesuits, Anthropology and Colonial Luso Brazilian context: an approach on the constitution of knowledge in Human Science

Abstract

This article discuss the relation between the Jesuit intellectual production during the “Luso Brazilian” colonial period and the process of building a knowledge in human science, mainly Anthropology. It emphasizes how the reports written by the Jesuits in the luso American colonial context (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) may have influenced the Western European thought contributing to the production of the scientific reports about non European realities by the nineteenth Century.