Amorim Girão’s ‘The descriptions of the voyages of 16th and 17th centuries and Human geography’: a note on The History of Portuguese Geography

• Type: Article in National Scientific Journal
• Date: 2023

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Pimenta, José Ramiro (Author) FLUP

Journal

Title: Cadernos de Geografia

Vol. 48

Pages: 113-116

ISSN: 0871-1623

Publisher: Universidade de Coimbra. Faculdade de Letras

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DOI: 10.14195/0871-1623_48_9

Abstract (EN): Aristides de Amorim Girão (1895–1960) —the first Portuguese geographer to submit a doctoral thesis to the University— presented ‘As descrições das viagens dos séculos XVI e XVII e a Geografia humana’ [Descriptions of 16th and 17th century travel and Human Geography] to the XVI International Congress of Geography, held in Lisbon in 1949. The character of the international audience is certainly not unrelated to the general tone of the lecture — markedly anti-determinist and with some hints of organic humanism and national-catholicist spiritualism—, nor to the chosen theme: the geographical descriptions of missionary travellers in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific