![]() Something that loses force in the work for a master’s degree was what was transformed into the most marking trait of the Raízes do Brasil, which is a historical essay about what was missing and what was denied in the constitution of our identity.” “Some things changed in Sérgio Buarque’s perception. “There is an impressive line of continuity between this dissertation and the classic Raízes do Brasil, published in 1936”, explains De Decca. ![]() The text slumbered in the historian’s collection, entrusted to Unicamp after his death.De Decca was surprised and intrigued with what he found. Recently, a copy of the dissertation was found by historian and professor from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) Edgar de Decca, a scholar in Buarque’s work. Very few people indeed know the 145 page work entitled Elementos Formadores da Sociedade Portuguesa na Época dos Descobrimentos. ![]() It is a dissertation for a master’s degree, defended by Sérgio Buarque in 1958 at the São Paulo Free School of Sociology and Politics, which was never transformed into a book and remained submerged in a sort of academic limbo. ![]() The reflections about the legacy of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902-1982), prompted by the centenary of his birth last year, had the gift of redeeming a forgotten chapter of the work of the historian who dedicated his academic career to understanding the national soul. ![]()
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