Raimundo Nina Rodrigues (December 4, 1862 – July 17, 1906) was a Brazilian

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and

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. A notable

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, he was also a dietologist, tropicalist,

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and

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. Nina Rodrigues is considered the founder of Brazilian criminal anthropology and a pioneer in studies on

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in the country. A nationalist, he was the first Brazilian scholar to address the theme of black people as a relevant

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for understanding the racial formation of the Brazilian population, despite adopting a

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, scientistic and deterministic perspective, in his book ''Os Africanos no Brasil'' (1890–1905).

Selected works

* ''Regime alimentar no Norte do Brasil'' (1881) * ''A Morféia em Andajatuba'' (1886) * ''Das amiotrofias de origem periférica'' (Doctorate thesis, 1888) * ''As raças humanas e a responsabilidade penal no Brasil (1894)'' * ''O animismo fetichista dos negros baianos'' (1900) * ''O alienado no Direito Civil Brasileiro'' (1901) * ''Manual de autópsia médico-legal'' (1901) * ''Os Africanos no Brasil'' (1932) * ''As Coletividades anormais'' (1939)

References

External Links

* http://www.medicina.ufba.br/historia_med/hist_med_art61a.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Nina Rodrigues, Raimundo Brazilian sociologists Brazilian psychiatrists 1906 deaths Brazilian eugenicists Brazilian criminologists Brazilian anthropologists 1862 births