...Alexander Marchant Monções . By de Holanda Sérgio Buarque . [ Coleção Estudos Brasileiros da Casa do Estudante do Brasil, Série A, No. 3 .] ( Rio de Janeiro : Casa do Estudante do Brasil , 1945 . Pp. 255 . Illustrations, maps.) Copyright 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 ...

... at the Instituto Nacional do Livro and the Biblioteca Nacional. His literary criticism of 1940-41 was collected as Cobra de Vidro (1944; 2d enl. ed. 1978). In 1945 he became president of the Rio section of the Associagão Brasileira de Escritores and also published Os Monções , his first documented work...

... traditionally rural past and its struggle for an urban future, whereas Holanda’s subsequent work on the Brazilian West— Monções (1945) and Caminhos e fronteiras —bridges the apparent discontinuity between tradition and modernity. According to Wegner, the contrast in Holanda’s treatment of these themes stems...

... tripulantes das embarcações em suas prolongadas viagens rio-acima e rio-abaixo, encerrando o artigo com urna abordagem minuciosa da organização e estrutura do comércio monçoneiro: a natureza das cargas que circularam naquela região graças às monções e as condicionantes que caracterisaram aquela atividade...

... the Museu Paulista, a post I held for ten years. Perhaps my publication of Monções the previous year aided my spiritual, as well as physical, return to São Paulo. RG: When did you leave Rio? SBH: After 1943 I worked at the Biblioteca Nacional in Rio along with Rubens Borba de Morais. Rumors...

... of canoes, called monções . 10 The cargo of the monções only initially included agricultural products, since the high cost of transportation raised the final price of food sufficiently to stimulate agricultural production near the mines. The trade from São Paulo thereafter consisted mostly of imported...