A Black Cartographer of the Long Eighteenth Century: Anastácio de Sant'Anna's Guia de Caminhantes
Abstract
From 1816 to 1817, Anastacio de Sant'Anna, a pardo (mixed-race) artist and cartographer active in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, produced the Guia de Caminhantes, a manuscript atlas of Brazil and the Americas. Sant'Anna's Guia is one of the few extant cartographic works produced by a Black artist during the slavery era. Discussing the Guia in English for the first time, this essay positions Sant'Anna's work inside of the emergent subfield of Black Geographies. It argues that Sant'Anna used the Guia to advocate for the place of Black and Indigenous histories in Brazil's nascent, post-colonial national identity, while also interrogating the history of cartography and landscape painting in colonial Brazil.
Repository Citation
Rarey, Matthew. 2024. "A Black Cartographer of the Long Eighteenth Century: Anastácio de Sant'Anna's Guia de Caminhantes." Arts 13(6): 178.
Publisher
MDPI
Publication Date
12-5-2024
Publication Title
Arts
Department
Art History
Additional Department
Latin American Studies
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13060178
Notes
Special Issue: Black Artists in the Atlantic World
Keywords
Cartography, Brazil, Blackness
Language
English
Format
text
