Arthur Ramos

Arthur Ramos de Araújo Pereira (born July 7, 1903 in Pilar (Alagoas) , † October 31, 1949 in Paris ) was a Brazilian ethnologist , anthropologist and social psychologist .

Life

Ramos studied medicine at the Federal University of Bahia , where he met with a thesis on the "primitives and madness" doctorate . He was "appointed forensic doctor ... and trained as a psychiatrist ". In the mid-1940s he became full professor of anthropology and ethnology in Rio de Janeiro . In theory, he was heavily influenced by Nina Rodrigues .

Ramos made a major contribution to the institutionalization of the social sciences in Brazil. In 1949 he became director of the UNESCO Department of Social Sciences . Together with Bertrand Russell , Jean Piaget , Maria Montessori and Julian Huxley , he worked on a world peace plan until his untimely death.

The Negro Cultures in the New World appeared in German in Zurich in 1948 .

For Richard Pattee , he was the "greatest living authority over the Brazilian Negro" in his day.

His best-known quote reads: "My highest reward would be to hear again those dear voices that the wind from the distant Pilar brings to me as music for my heart."

Web links

Literature by and about Arthur Ramos in the catalog of the German National Library

Literature by and about Arthur Ramos in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

Literature by and about Arthur Ramos in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Literature by and about Arthur Ramos in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Richard Katz : Introduction by the translator . In: Arthur Ramos: The Negro cultures in the New World. Erlenbach-Zurich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1946, pp. 11-19.
↑ Edison de Souza Carneiro , James W. Ivy : Arthur Ramos: Brazilian Anthropologist (1903-1949) . In: Phylon . tape 12 , no. 1 , 1951, p. 73-81 , JSTOR : 272324 .
↑ In Portuguese : A minha recompensa maior será a de estar ouvindo aquelas vozes queridas que os ventos constantemente me trazem do Pilar distante para a música do meu coração. Ramos concluded many book titles with these words. “Such words, of course, are rarely encountered in Arthur Ramos; because he is a scholar who lets facts speak and not feelings. "(Richard Katz: Introduction by the translator . In: Arthur Ramos: Die Negerkulturen in der Neuen Welt. Erlenbach-Zürich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1946, p. 11. )

personal data
SURNAME	Ramos, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ramos de Araujo Pereira, Arthur; Araujo Pereira, Arthur Ramos de; Pereira, Arthur Ramos de Araujo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian ethnologist, anthropologist and social psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pilar (Alagoas)
DATE OF DEATH	October 31, 1949
Place of death	Paris

[katz-1] A ^b ^c Richard Katz : Introduction by the translator . In: Arthur Ramos: The Negro cultures in the New World. Erlenbach-Zurich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1946, pp. 11-19.

[2] Edison de Souza Carneiro , James W. Ivy : Arthur Ramos: Brazilian Anthropologist (1903-1949) . In: Phylon . tape 12 , no. 1 , 1951, p. 73-81 , JSTOR : 272324 .

[3] In Portuguese : A minha recompensa maior será a de estar ouvindo aquelas vozes queridas que os ventos constantemente me trazem do Pilar distante para a música do meu coração. Ramos concluded many book titles with these words. “Such words, of course, are rarely encountered in Arthur Ramos; because he is a scholar who lets facts speak and not feelings. "(Richard Katz: Introduction by the translator . In: Arthur Ramos: Die Negerkulturen in der Neuen Welt. Erlenbach-Zürich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1946, p. 11. )