CONTRIBUTIONS OF REGIONALIST LITERATURE IN THE FORMATION OF GEOGRAPHIC THOUGHT IN THE AMAZON

Abstract

This article is guided in elucidation of the training bases of geographic thought in the Amazon, considering the regionalist literature of the period prior to the institutionalization of the first courses of geography in Brazil and in the Amazon. Through the geo-historical method, survey and bibliographic analysis, we sought to identify how the classical texts prepared by travelers and explorers who described the Amazon, registering the events in a given space and time in the region, were consolidated as he wrote records of geographic thought in the Amazon. It is evidenced that the foundations that support this time of geography becomes important to understand that such science spear hand of mankind, society-nature, adopting as the dynamics of nature and pillar of society, as well as the historical processes, economic, political and territorial, that correlated, published the evolution of thinking and do geographical by the time of the institutionalization of first degree in geography in the Stare of Amazon, in the Decade of 1980. The regionalist literature evidence to win descriptions marked by empiricism and naturalism, about space and spatiality, and also allows a reading of geographic character that allow the establishment of analytical beacons for this space-time.