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- Title
Ruth Landes (1908-1991) and Her Understanding of Brazil in The City of Women.
- Authors
Oliveira, Amurabi
- Abstract
Ruth Landes was an American anthropologist whose academic background was forged at Columbia University, who developed her research on Brazil in the 1930s. Her research was mainly related to black populations and Afro-Brazilian religions. Ruth Landes's trip to Brazil was influenced by a web of relations involving American and Brazilian anthropologists, such as Franz Boas (1858-1942), Melville Herskovits (1895-1963), Rüdiger Bilden (1893-1980), Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987) and Arthur Ramos (1903-1949), in addition to her intense contact with the researcher Edison Carneiro (1912-1972). She also went through an "internship" at Fisk University, also the starting point for other American researchers who conducted research in Brazil, which points to an intense intellectual circulation in the United States and Brazil during the process of production and dissemination of her research on Afro-Brazilian populations. In this paper I analyze the trajectory of Ruth Landes as an American anthropologist who carried out research in Brazil. I seek to analyze the elaboration and reception of "The City of Women", highlighting the role of gender relations in this process.
- Subjects
CITY of Women, The (Book); LANDES, Ruth; WOMEN anthropologists; GENDER; RACE relations in Brazil
- Publication
Asian Journal of Latin American Studies, 2019, Vol 32, Issue 3, p29
- ISSN
1229-0998
- Publication type
Literary Criticism