58 research outputs found
Mapping an Atlantic world: circa 1500/ Alida C. Metcalf.
No full text"The year 1500, Metcalf argues, was a turning point in Europeans' understanding of their world in relation to the Atlantic Ocean. In the sixteenth century, cartographers began to conceptualize-and present to the public-an interconnected Atlantic World that was open and navigable, in contrast with the mysterious ocean that had blocked off the Western hemisphere before Columbus. The author contends that early modern cartographers were significant agents in the intellectual history of the Atlantic World"--The Atlantic Ocean on the periphery -- 1500 -- Chartmakers -- The fourth part of the world -- Parrots and trees -- The cannibalist scene.1 online resourc
Metcalf (Alida C.) : Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil, Santana de Parnaiba 1580-1822
No full textMauro Frédéric. Metcalf (Alida C.) : Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil, Santana de Parnaiba 1580-1822. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 81, n°303, 2e trimestre 1994. pp. 247-248
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imagineRio: A Diachronic Atlas of the Social and Architectural Evolution of Rio de Janeiro
No full textPresentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Farès el-Dahdah and Alida C. Metcalf discuss imagineRio, a searchable atlas platform that illustrates the social and urban evolution of Rio de Janeiro over the entire history of the city, as it existed and as it was often imagined
Family and frontier in colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822
No full textColonial families in the Brazilian town of Santana de Parnaíba lived on the fringe of settlement in a vast and perilous continent. In her revealing community history, Metcalf tells how these settlers pursued family strategies that adapted European custom to the American environment. Turning to recorded events such as marriages, baptisms, and especially inheritances, she discovers that as the newcomers transformed the wilderness into a settled agricultural community, they laid the foundation for a class society of planters, peasants, and slaves. With an engaging description of family life at all three levels of society, the author shows how the families most successful in exploiting and controlling the resources of the wilderness gained wealth, power, and social dominance.Metcalf challenges accepted views by contending that not only external economic forces but also colonial family strategies paved the way for an inegalitarian society in Brazil. Her portrayal of frontier survival and coping, together with the heedless exploitation of wilderness resources, brings a historical perspective to the consideration of Brazil's last frontier, the Amazon
The return of Hans Staden: A go-between in the Atlantic world
No full textA review of the book "The Return of Hans Staden: A Go-Between in the Atlantic World," edited by Eve M. Duffy and Alida C. Metcalf is presented
Travelers in Skirts: Gender, Literature, and Travel in the Lives and Writings of Nísia Floresta and Adèle Toussaint-Samson (Nineteenth-century Atlantic World)
No full textThis dissertation is for a dual degree from Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA and the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. The full dissertation is in the author's home institution's language (Portuguese) and the article length summary (or article) is in the language of the second institution (English).This dissertation investigates the relationships between gender and writing in the personal and intellectual trajectories of the Brazilian woman writer Nísia Floresta (Papary, 1810 - Rouen, 1885) and the French woman writer Adèle Toussaint-Samson (Paris, 1820-1911), in nineteenth-century Brazil and Europe. The core question of this research is how being a woman influenced their experiences as women writers and as female travellers. This work proposes a dialogue between these two writers who lived their long lives through the nineteenth century, shared similar spaces, performed Atlantic journeys, and thought through their writings about what they called the “feminine condition”. The dissertation is divided in three parts according to the chronological order of the authors’ lives and publications. In the first part, I discuss the relationship between domesticity and writing in the beginning of their production of texts and their awakening as authors. In the second part, I deal with the influence of travel both on their lives and in their writings. In the third and last part, I discuss the later years of the writers, analyzing the ways they adressed the subject of aging, the self memories they would leave for posterity, as well as their proximity to death. Throughout their lives, both of them had to negotiate their “female condition” with their performance as writers. This work is also a contribution to the History of Feminism, for through the empirical analysis of the lives of these two women, it adds one more chapter
A família e a sociedade rural paulista: Santana de Parnaíba, 1750-1850
No full textEste artigo compara as estratégias familiares observadas pelas camadas proprietárias de escravos e camponeses em Santana de Parnaíba nos fins do século XVIII e início do século XIX. Os proprietárlos de terras e de escravos orientavam suas estratégias de família no sentido de preserver a integridade de sua riqueza por meio da divisão desigual de
bens partilháveis, incentivando o deslocamento de filhos para as frentes de expansão e favorecendo as filhas e os genros com a maior parte da riqueza da família. Em contraste, as estratégias dos camponeses visavam, sobretudo, asobrevivência dentro do contexto de uma economia rural em rápida transformação. A medida que a economia de
subsistência cedia lugar a uma produção de gêneros de abastecimento, os domicílios camponeses diminuíram em tamanho, os domicílios chefiados por mulheres aumentaram em número e a família nuclear passou a ter menor importância. Os ajustamentos e mudanças da vida familiar deixaram suas marcas na estrutura social da comunidade estudada, bem como nas frentes de expansão
Correction to: A mixed methods analysis of the medication review intervention centered around the use of the ‘Systematic Tool to Reduce Inappropriate Prescribing’ Assistant (STRIPA) in Swiss primary care practices (BMC Health Services Research, (2024), 24, 1, (350), 10.1186/s12913-024-10773-y)
No full textIn this article, the author name Corlina Johanna Alida Huibers was incorrectly written as Johanna Alida Corlina Huibers due to a typesetting mistake. The author group has been updated above and the original article has been corrected. The publisher apologises to the authors and readers for the inconvenience caused by this error
Amerigo Vespucci and the Four Finger (Kunstmann II) World Map
No full textIs the anonymous painted map of the world, dated c. 1506 in the Bavarian State Library, also known as the "Four Finger" world chart, or as the Kunstmann II, authored by Amerigo Vespucci? The map was a privately-held, highly illuminated painted world map. Its execution implies a map-maker with access to up-to-date Spanish and Portuguese geographic knowledge, and who had likely travelled to the new world. This paper explores the evidence for attributing the authorship of the map to Amerigo Vespucci and asks if digital cartography can further resolve this question
Correction: A mixed methods analysis of the medication review intervention centered around the use of the ‘Systematic Tool to Reduce Inappropriate Prescribing’ Assistant (STRIPA) in Swiss primary care practices (BMC Health Services Research, (2024), 24, 1, (350), 10.1186/s12913-024-10773-y)
No full textIn this article, the author name Corlina Johanna Alida Huibers was incorrectly written as Johanna Alida Corlina Huibers due to a typesetting mistake. The author group has been updated above and the original article has been corrected. The publisher apologises to the authors and readers for the inconvenience caused by this error
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