L’explorateur tchèque Alberto Vojtěch Frič et ses efforts pour protéger les indigènes brésiliens au début du XXe siècle : essai d’histoire croisée

Abstract

The text deals with a moment at the turn of the 19th and 20th century when the paths of Czech and Brazilian societies crossed. Vojtěch Frič, Czech adventurer and traveler, botanist and anthropologist, during his stay in southern Brazil in 1907-1908 enthusiastically engaged in the efforts to protect the native inhabitants from the encroachments of German settlers on their territories. The text explores the sequence of events that led to Frič’s denunciation of these practices during the Congress of Americanists in Vienna, and to the subsequent debates in Brazil that led to the establishment of the Indian Protection Service in 1910. It demonstrates how seemingly separate events and developments connected with each other within the frame of the increasingly interconnected world on both sides of the Atlantic.

Keywords

• german migration to Brazil
• Indian Protection Service
• Czech national revival
• Vojtěch Frič
• Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon