O IHGB e a ditadura civil-militar brasileira

Abstract

The present dissertation proposes to understand the Brazilian dictatorship through the analysis of the relationship between certain segments of civil society and the regime that was established after the 1964 coup. For this purpose, we seek to investigate the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (IHGB) from 1964 to 1979 with the purpose of presenting and inserting the research object in the current historiographic debate about the dictatorship, trying to understand it in this authoritarian moment of the country. The research generally consists of meeting associates who have been members of the Institute's administration over the years through the prosopographic approach and analyzing how the IHGB dealt with and related to the dictatorship shortly after the coup and in later years, dialoguing with studies that seek to understand the regime from the bases provided by civil society agencies. The privileged source for the research is the Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (RIHGB) and, in addition, biobibliographic dictionaries are used as references for the collection of information about the members of the institute. On the one hand, the RIHGB provides an analysis of minutes of regular sessions, opinions, news regarding the institution, administrative acts, members' board and other information that may be of interest to this research, making possible the investigation of the relations between the institute and the current governments in the period and the discussions unleashed within the IHGB. On the other, through the biobibliographic dictionaries, the biographies and trajectories of the IHGB administration members are studied in the period with the purpose of knowing the individuals and analyzing the collective profile of these subjects through the use of the prosopographic method.