ENTRE OS ―URROS DAS FERAS E A MÚSICA SOTURNA DO VENTO‖: As matas paranaenses nos relatos de viagem (1875-1921)

Abstract

The present study attempts to comprehend how biotic and abiotic factors in forests located in the territory of Paraná were perceived, experienced, and described by travelers at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. The set of documents used in the investigation include three travel accounts: one by Captain Nestor Borba (1875); one by lieutenant José Cândido da Silva Muricy (1892); and one by the journalist Jayme Ballão (1920). The study focuses on assessing the sociopolitical and cultural roles played by the travelers while in Paraná, analyzing how the forests‘ characteristics were described, and examining the feelings, sensations, perceptions, and/or discussions the experience of the forest aroused in the authors. In order to construct the theoretical and methodological approach, this paper engages with concepts of environmental history, emphasizing the analysis on corporality and the sensitive relationship between humans and the environment.