Bastide and Verger between"africas" and"brazils": intertwined routes, superimposed images

Abstract

This article aims to examine the"Brazil in Africa" topic on the basis of in-depth consideration of Roger Bastide's (1898-1974) trip to Africa in the company of Pierre Verger (1902-1996), his friend and guide, in 1958. The text pays close attention to the way in which certain images are produced - and translated - over the course of this specific journey, whilst dealing with travels by means of narratives produced by those who traveled: diaries, correspondence, journalistic articles and others of an academic kind. It takes up again and broadens my concerns regarding the examination of anthropological and sociological production about Brazil (by Brazilians and foreigners), seeking to shed light also on certain dimensions of the relations between travel, writing and experience, which supply the semantic field within which ethnography should be understood.