Nas Trilhas do Sertão: escritos de cultura e política no Ceará

Edilberto Florêncio dos Santos; Cícero Joaquim dos Santos; Reginaldo Alves de Araújo

doi:10.35260/54212830-2026

On the Trails of the Sertão: Writings on culture and politics in Ceará

Authors

Edilberto Florêncio dos Santos (ed)

Sobral Municipal Government

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9508-8313

Cícero Joaquim dos Santos (ed)

Universidade Regional do Cariri (URCA)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4897-4336

Reginaldo Alves de Araújo (ed)

Seduc-CE

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35260/54212830-2026

Synopsis

In 1923, Oliveira Vianna advanced the thesis that change in Brazil would always occur without popular participation and in a peaceful manner, free from major upheavals. This thesis may well have inspired interpretations such as the notion of an Independence achieved without turmoil. Ten years after Vianna, Gilberto Freyre formulated the thesis of racial democracy; three years later still—at the dawn of the *Estado Novo*—Sérgio Buarque de Holanda developed the concept of the "cordial man," based on the idea that Brazilians were deeply driven by personal connections and had little regard for formalities.
It must be noted, however, that for Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, the concept of the "cordial man" was not linked to the idea of kindness or benevolence (an interpretation later attributed to the historian); rather, it referred to the "practices of the heart"—describing an individual motivated by personal, rather than formal, relationships. It represents, therefore, the antithesis of impartiality—a characteristic these historians associated with the capitalist world—whereas Brazil was understood as the opposite of liberal capitalism.

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Author Biographies

Edilberto Florêncio dos Santos, Sobral Municipal Government

PhD candidate in History at the Graduate Program in History (PPGH) at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). Holds a Master’s degree in History and Cultures from the Academic Master’s Program in History (MAHIS) at the State University of Ceará (UECE, 2018). Holds specializations in the Teaching of Ceará’s History (2013) and Cultural Management (2019) from the Cultural Management Laboratory (UVA). Earned a Bachelor’s degree in History from the Vale do Acaraú State University (UVA, 2011). Tenured teacher in the municipal school system of Sobral, Ceará. Member of the Study and Research Group on Heritage and Memory (Federal University of Ceará - UFC) and the "Miragens de História" Study and Research Group on the Theory and History of Historiography (Federal University of Campina Grande).

Cícero Joaquim dos Santos, Universidade Regional do Cariri (URCA)

Assistant Professor in the Department of History at URCA. Faculty member of the Graduate Program in History Teaching (ProfHistória) and the Professional Master's Program in Education (PMPEDU/URCA). Completed a postdoctoral fellowship in History at UNIRIO. Holds a PhD in History from UFC. Leader of the Oral History, Memory, and Diversities Research Group – NHISTAL (URCA/CNPq). Coordinator of GENXES: International LGBTQIA+ Network.

Reginaldo Alves de Araújo, Seduc-CE

He holds a PhD and a Master's degree in Social History from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and a Bachelor's degree and specialization in History from Vale do Acaraú State University. Currently, he is a researcher with the Society for Nineteenth-Century Studies (SEBO) research group and a teacher at EEMTI Ayres de Sousa. He has experience in the field of Brazilian History, with an emphasis on the history of Imperial Brazil and the history of Imperial Brazil in the province of Ceará.