“Estranho em terra estranha”: práticas e olhares estrangeiro-protestantes no Ceará oitocentista

Abstract

In the nineteenth century, Brazil experienced a large presence of foreigners in its territory. Among these foreigners, werein Brazil the British Henry Koster and George Gardner; and the Americans Daniel Kidder, De Lacey Wardlaw and Mary Hoge Wardlaw, all of them Protestants. Despite the many peculiarities of these subjects, they wrote reports containing their views on this territory and its inhabitants. This dissertation deals with an analysis of discourses and experiences of these five foreign travelers Anglo-Saxon Protestants who through their writings built an extensive set of alterity relations with Brazil.