Da rede ao altar: vida, ofício e fé de um historiador Potiguar

Abstract

This dissertation proposes to present two sides of Luís da Câmara Cascudo less explored by historiography, the one of a man of faith and the one of a catholic historian. In reconstitution of the intellectual path of Câmara Cascudo, we highlight the influences acquired in the familial environment; the school formation in his childhood and the academic in his youth; the constitution of the family and his adulthood; his deeds as a journalist and as a teacher, so we can, then, set about, more closely, his production as a historian. Besides having been the Official Historian of the city of Natal and having produced several established historical syntheses about his State and home city, Câmara Cascudo was a member of the Historical and Geographic Institute of Rio Grande do Norte and of all Brazilian Institutes, a fact we discuss from the historiographic debate about his “incurable provincialism”, from the reflection about his conception of History and from his analysis about the version of History of Brazil and Ri