Capistrano-geographer by Arthur Cezar Ferreira Reis:

a spark of tension in the memory and a condescending outcome

Abstract

The object studied in this article constitutes itself into the interface between historiographical discourse and memory. At the Capistrano de Abreu Course, in 1953, Arthur Cezar Ferreira Reis gave the conference “Capistrano-geographer”, examining the honored author's connections with geography. The intention here is to analyze the lecturer's arguments to establish this relationship and calculate the coherence of his speech when comparing it with Capistrano's work. Furthermore, it seeks to think of this discursive moment as one of tension in Capistran's memory, insofar as the picture of a Capistrano-historian, the central theme of the Course, is tensioned by the reference to geography and a hypothetical Capistrano-geographer. It comes to the conclusion that Ferreira Reis' conference, published in volume 221 of the IHGB Magazine, despite diverting Capistranian memory to geography, it ends up affirming the Capistrano-historian as the precursor of a group of historians interested in geography as an object of study and training path.