Um diálogo imaginário: Richard Morse e Gilberto Freyre em perspectiva comparada

Abstract

This essay establishes a dialogue between the ideias of the north American historian Richard Morse (1922-2001) and the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre (1900 – 1987), analyzing the influence received by Morse from the Brazilian scholar in his academic studies, both in the United States and Brazil. Used as primary sources for scholarly text published Morse while graduate student, texts that Freyre published in Brazil and in the United States. For this , the context of production is also shown as a way to locate temporally and spatially their interpretations. Considering the methodological proposals of Comparative History - consisting of systematically examine two realities ( in the case of this work , two ways of thinking ) , indicating not only the similarities but also the differences of thought - the work examines how the north American appropriated ideas spread by the Brazilian , and appropriated in his early writings using thematic and similar methods .