The Annales and the interdisciplinarity: a balance of Brazilian polemicist historiography

Abstract

The interdisciplinarity was associated with the Annales (1929 - ...). In the 20th century, few historiographical movements or schools went so far and successful in the attempt to inscribe the dialogue with other disciplines as a slogan of practices and historiographic knowledges such as the magazine and the segment inaugurated by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre. In these pages, the comparative analysis seeks to understand how the socalled Brazilian polemicist historiography presents, understands and treat the relationship between the Annales of the first two generations and the interdisciplinarity. The approach focuses on the critical re-reading of two fundamental and far-reaching works produced and published in Brazil: “Escola dos Annales: a inovação em História” (Paz & Terra, 2000), by José Carlos Reis; and “ Teoria da História: a Escola dos Annales e a Nova História” (VOZES, 2012), volume V, which integrates the collection “Teoria da História” under the signature of the historian José D’Asunción Barros. The article also seeks to problematize them from the perspective of the tension between the “federalist” character of History advocated by the Annales and the “tradition-rupture” phenomenon.