Darcy Ribeiro
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Darcy Ribeiro | |
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| Senator for Rio de Janeiro | |
| In office February 1, 1991 – February 17, 1997 | |
| Vice Governor of Rio de Janeiro | |
| In office March 15, 1983 – March 15, 1987 | |
| Governor | Leonel Brizola |
| Preceded by | Hamilton Xavier |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Amaral |
| Chief of Staff of the Presidency | |
| In office June 18, 1963 – April 2, 1964 | |
| President | João Goulart |
| Preceded by | Evandro Lins e Silva |
| Succeeded by | Getúlio de Moura |
| Minister of Education | |
| In office September 18, 1962 – January 23, 1963 | |
| Prime Minister | Hermes Lima |
| Preceded by | Roberto Lira |
| Succeeded by | Teotônio Monteiro de Barros |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 26, 1922 Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Died | February 17, 1997 (aged 74) Brasília, Federal District, Brazil |
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| Spouse |
Berta Gleizer
(m. 1948; sep. 1974) |
| Alma mater | Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo (BA) |
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Darcy Ribeiro (October 26, 1922 – February 17, 1997) was a Brazilian
Biography
Darcy Ribeiro was born in
During the first mandate of governor Leonel Brizola in Rio de Janeiro (1983–1987), Darcy Ribeiro created, planned and directed the implementation of the "Integrated Centers for Public Instruction" (Centros Integrados de Ensino Público), a visionary and revolutionary pedagogical project of assistance for children, including recreational and cultural activities beyond formal instruction – making concrete the projects envisioned decades earlier by Anísio Teixeira. Long before politicians incorporated the importance of education for the development of Brazil into their discourse, Darcy Ribeiro and Leonel Brizola had already developed these ideals.
In the elections of 1986, Ribeiro was the Democratic Labor Party (
Thought
Darcy Ribeiro's ideas belonged to the evolutionist school of sociology and anthropology, and his main influences were Neoevolutionists Leslie White and Julian Steward, and the Marxist archeologist V. Gordon Childe. He believed that people went through a "civilizatory process" beginning as hunter-gatherers. This "civilizatory process" was according to him marked by technological revolutions, and among these he stress the eight more important as the following:
- the agricultural revolution
- the urban revolution
- the irrigation revolution
- the metallurgic revolution
- the livestock revolution
- the mercantile revolution
- the industrial revolution
- the thermonuclearrevolution
Ribeiro proposed also a classification scheme for Latin American countries where he identified "New Peoples" (Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Venezuela etc.), that merged from the mix of several cultures; "Testimony Peoples" (Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala and Bolivia), remnants of ancient civilizations; and Argentina and Uruguay, former "New Peoples" that became "Transplantated Peoples", essentially European, after massive immigration.[2]
Selected works
- Ethnology
- Culturas e línguas indígenas do Brasil – 1957
- Arte plumária dos índios Kaapo – 1957
- A política indigenista brasileira – 1962
- Os índios e a civilização – 1970
- Uira sai, à procura de Deus – 1974
- Configurações histórico-culturais dos povos americanos – 1975
- Suma etnológica brasileira – 1986 (colaboração; três volumes).
- Diários índios – os urubus-kaapor – 1996
- Anthropology
- O processo civilizatório – etapas da evolução sócio-cultural – 1968
- As Américas e a civilização – processo de formação e causas do desenvolvimento cultural desigual dos povos americanos – 1970
- Os índios e a civilização – a integração das populações indígenas no Brasil moderno – 1970
- The culture – historical configurations of the American peoples – 1970
- Os brasileiros – teoria do Brasil – 1972
- O dilema da América Latina – estruturas do poder e forças insurgentes – 1978
- O povo brasileiro – a formação e o sentido do Brasil – 1995
- Romances
- Maíra – 1976
- O mulo – 1981
- Utopia selvagem – 1982
- Migo – 1988
- Essays
- Kadiwéu – ensaios etnológicos sobre o saber, o azar e a beleza – 1950
- Configurações histórico-culturais dos povos americanos – 1975
- Sobre o óbvio - ensaios insólitos – 1979
- Aos trancos e barrancos – como o Brasil deu no que deu – 1985
- América Latina: a pátria grande – 1986
- Testemunho – 1990
- A fundação do Brasil – 1500/1700 – 1992 (colaboração)
- O Brasil como problema – 1995
- Noções de coisas – 1995
- Education
- Plano orientador da Universidade de Brasília – 1962
- A universidade necessária – 1969
- Propuestas – acerca da la renovación – 1970
- Université des Sciences Humaines d'Alger – 1972
- La universidad peruana – 1974
- UnB – invenção e descaminho – 1978
- Nossa escola é uma calamidade – 1984
- Universidade do terceiro milênio – plano orientador da Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense – 1993
References
- ^ Ocampo Lopéz, Javier. Darcy Ribeiro Archived July 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. 2006.
- ^ Larraín, Jorge. Identidad chilena. 2001. Editorial LOM.
