Daniel Vidart (October 7, 1920 in
Paysandú
Paysandú () is the capital and most populous city of the Paysandú Department in western Uruguay. Located on the banks of the Uruguay River, it is the country's List of cities in Uruguay, fourth-largest city and a vital cultural and economic hu ...
– May 14, 2019) was a
Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...
an
anthropologist
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, writer,
historian
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, and
essayist
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.
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He was one of the most notable
social scientist
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s of the region. In 2010 he was awarded the Grand National Prize for Intellectual Activity.
[ ]
He died in 2019, aged 98.
Works
* ''Tomás Berreta''. La Industrial,
Montevideo
Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...
, 1946
* ''Esquema de una Sociología Rural Uruguaya''. Ministerio de Ganadería y Agricultura, Montevideo, 1948
* ''Sociología Rural''. Salvat, Barcelona, 2 vol. 1960
* ''Teoría del tango''.
Banda Oriental
Banda Oriental (Eastern Bank), or more fully Banda Oriental del Río Uruguay, was the name of the South American territories east of the Uruguay River and north of Río de la Plata that comprise the modern nation of Uruguay, the modern state of Ri ...
, Montevideo, 1964
* ''Los pueblos prehistóricos del territorio uruguayo''. Centro Paul Rivet, Montevideo, 1965
* ''Caballos y jinetes. Pequeña historia de los pueblos ecuestres''. Arca, Montevideo, 1967;
* ''El paisaje uruguayo. El medio biofísico y la respuesta cultural de su habitante''. Alfa, Montevideo, 1967
* ''El tango y su mundo''. Tauro, Montevideo, 1967
* ''Ideología y realidad de América''. Universidad de la República, Montevideo, 1968
*
El legado de los inmigrantes' (with
Renzo Pi Hugarte Renzo Wifredo Pi Hugarte (Durazno, 23 November 1934 – Montevideo, 15 August 2012) was a Uruguayan scholar, anthropologist, professor, historian and writer. Together with Daniel Vidart he is considered one of the "founding fathers" of anthropology ...
), Nuestra Tierra, Montevideo, 1969-1970
* ''Los muertos y sus sombras. Cinco siglos de América''. Banda Oriental, Montevideo, 1993
* ''El juego y la condición humana''. Banda Oriental, Montevideo, 1995
* ''El mundo de los charrúas''. Banda Oriental, Montevideo, 1996
* ''Los cerritos de los indios del Este uruguayo''. Banda Oriental, Montevideo, 1996
* ''La trama de la identidad nacional'', Banda Oriental, Montevideo:
**Tº lº Indios, negros, gauchos, 1997
**Tº 2º El diálogo ciudad – campo, 1998
**Tº 3º El espíritu criollo, 2000
* ''Un vuelo chamánico''. Editorial Fin de Siglo, Montevideo, 1999;
* ''El rico patrimonio de los orientales''. Banda Oriental, Montevideo, 2003
* ''Cuerpo vestido, cuerpo desvestido. Antropología de la ropa interior femenina''. (with Anabella Loy). Banda Oriental, Montevideo, 2000
* ''Los fugitivos de la historia''. Banda Oriental, Montevideo, 2009
* ''Tiempo de Navidad. Una antropología de la fiesta.'' (with Anabella Loy). Banda Oriental, Montevideo, 2009.
* ''Uruguayos''. 2012
* ''Tiempo de carnaval''. 2013
References
External links
CV of Daniel Vidart
1920 births
2019 deaths
People from Paysandú Department
University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni
National University of Colombia alumni
Uruguayan anthropologists
Uruguayan essayists
20th-century Uruguayan historians
Uruguayan non-fiction writers
Academic staff of the University of the Republic (Uruguay)
Academic staff of the National University of Colombia
Members of the Uruguayan Academy of Language
Royal Galician Academy
Recipients of the Delmira Agustini Medal
21st-century Uruguayan historians
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