Roberto DaMatta (born July 29, 1936) is a Brazilian anthropologist. He is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic university, Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend, Indiana, South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin fo ...
.
[Roberto DaMatta profile]
Department of Anthropology, the University of Notre Dame DaMatta graduated in history at the
Fluminense Federal University
The Fluminense Federal University (Portuguese: ''Universidade Federal Fluminense'', UFF, named after the state's demonym) is a public higher education institution located mainly in Niterói and in other cities of Rio de Janeiro state. It was fir ...
and received his PhD from
Harvard University
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.
DaMatta is the author of many books, including ''Carnivals, Rogues and Heroes: An Interpretation of the Brazilian Dilemma''.
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Selected works
*''Carnavais, malandros e heróis: Para uma sociologia do dilema brasileiro'', 1979.
**Translated into English as
Carnivals, Rogues, and Heroes: An Interpretation of the Brazilian Dilemma
', University of Notre Dame Press, 1991.
''A Divided World: Apinaye Social Structure''
Harvard University Press
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, 1982.
See also
*Jeitinho
Jeitinho (, literally "little way") is a Portuguese word to describe a method of finding a way to accomplish something by circumventing or bending the rules or transgressing social conventions. The concept is a deeply ingrained part of Brazilian c ...
*Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda
Sergius is a male given name of Ancient Roman origin after the name of the Latin ''gens'' Sergia or Sergii of regal and republican ages. It is a common Christian name, in honor of Saint Sergius, or in Russia, of Saint Sergius of Radonezh, an ...
*Darcy Ribeiro
Darcy Ribeiro (October 26, 1922 – February 17, 1997) was a Brazilian anthropologist, historian, sociologist, author and politician. His ideas have influenced several scholars of Brazilian and Latin American studies. As Minister of Educat ...
References
1936 births
Brazilian anthropologists
Living people
University of Notre Dame faculty
Brazilian columnists
People from Niterói
Harvard University alumni
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