João Sarmento
2022 | Húmus
ISBN:9789897557002
The main purpose of this work is to disclose Orlando Ribeiro’s field notebooks in Angola. It is a composite work of different elements. It includes the reproduction and annotated transcription of the notebooks, photographs, maps and other related documents, studies by João Sarmento and supporting materials to contextualize this unique collection of Orlando Ribeiro’s personal and scientific archive. João Sarmento’s studies extend beyond the spatial-temporal framework of the notebooks, the Angolan territory and the 1960s. They provide an overview of the geographic missions to the colonies during the African cycle of the Portuguese colonial empire.