Visual Anthropology: old disciplinary frontiers, new approaches.

Abstract

This paper deals with the basic questions of a moment of the development of Brazilian Anthropology highlighting the production of the ethnologist Harald Schultz, who in the period between 1939 to 1966 recorded the results of his researches in more than sixty ethnographic films, besides photos, articles and books. We tried to characterize the dialogue that was held by the Museu Paulista with the University of São Paulo and the Escola Livre de Sociologia e Política, analysing the effects brought about by the theoretical influences inherited from the European centers of this period that contributed to the construction of the paradigms of the Social Sciences in Brazil.