Eunice Ribeiro Durham

Eunice Ribeiro Durham (born July 3, 1932 in Limeira , São Paulo ) is a Brazilian anthropologist , political scientist and education expert.

Life

Eunice Ribeiro Durham graduated from the Universidade de São Paulo with a degree in social sciences in 1954 . She received her master's degree in social anthropology from the same university in 1964 with the thesis Mobilidade e assimilação. A história do imigrante italiano num município paulista , which deals with the Italian immigration to São Paulo, which is significant alongside German immigration. She was there in 1967 in social anthropology with the dissertation Migração, Trabalho e Família. Aspectos do processo de integração do trabalhador de origem rural à sociedade urbano-industrial doctorate , master's and doctoral theses were supervised by Egon Schaden as doctoral supervisor. She received her teaching qualification in 1973 with a thesis on the ethnographic work of Bronisław Malinowski . At the University of São Paulo, she became adjunct professor of anthropology at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences). In 2002 she retired there .

In her professional career, she has served on a variety of university and state committee and advisory roles. This included activities as coordinator of the Núcleo de Pesquisas sobre Ensino Superior (NUPES, Research Center for Higher Education), which she co-founded , from 1989 to 2005, which was joined by research in and as a member of the advisory board of the Núcleo de Pesquisas de Políticas Públicas (NUPPS) from 2005 . From 1990 to 1991 she was President of the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES, also Capes), a federal agency of the Brazilian Ministry of Education that sets standards for universities. In 1992 she became State Secretary for Higher Education in the government of Fernando Collor in the Ministry of Education, from 1995 to 1997 State Secretary for Education Policy in the government of Fernando Cardoso , from 1997 to 2001 she was a member of the National Education Council, and later from 2008 to 2012 in the state São Paulo to become a member of the Conselho Estadual de Educação de São Paulo (CEESP), which covers the entire educational system of this state. For a time she was Vice President of the Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC, Brazilian Society for Scientific Advances).

From around 1957 onwards she began extensive journalistic activities as an author, contributor and editor. One focus is higher education . The period of the military dictatorship (1964–1985) brought restrictions on university autonomy; at the beginning of the Sixth Republic, reforms began in 1985. For this she made analytical and programmatic contributions. A second focus is urban anthropology, with Durham addressing rural and urban migration , urban social movements and family organization.

Awards

• 1996: Grand Officer of the Rio Branco Order ( Ordem de Rio Branco )
• 2000: Grand Officer of the National Order for Educational Merits ( Ordem Nacional do Mérito Educativo )
• 2001: Medal of Merit 50 years of CAPES, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
• 2002: Commander of the National Order for Academic Merit
• 2002: Professora Emérita, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, USP
• 2004: Roquette Pinto Medal of Merit - 50 years of ABA, Associação Brasileira de Antropologia
• 2011: Homenagem a Mestres das Ciências Sociais, Núcleo de Pesquisa de Políticas Públicas da USP

Fonts

Monographs

• with Eunice Todescan Ribeiro: A difusão do Adventismo da Promessa no Catulé. Anhembi-INEP, São Paulo 1957.
• Assimilação e mobilidade. A história do imigrante italiano num município paulista. (= Publicações do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros ; 3). IEB, São Paulo 1966.
• A caminho da cidade. A vida rural ea migração para São Paulo. Editora Perspectiva, São Paulo 1973.
• A reconstituicão da realidade. To estudo sobre a obra etnográfica de Bronislaw Malinowski. Ática, São Paulo 1978.
• Família e reprodução humana. Zahar, Rio de Janeiro 1983.
• (Ed.): Coleção Grandes Cientistas Sociais - Malinowski. Ática, São Paulo 1986.
• with Simon Schwartzman : Avaliação do Ensino Superior. EdUSP, São Paulo 1992.
• with Helena Sampaio (ed.): O ensino superior em transformação. NUPES, USP, São Paulo 2001.
• A dinâmica da cultura. Ensaios de anthropologia. Cosac Naify, São Paulo 2004.

Contributions (selection):

• with Ruth Corrêa Leite Cardoso : O ensino da antropologia no Brasil. In: Revista de antropologia , São Paulo, Volume 9, 1961, No. 1/2, pp. 91-107.
• With Ruth C. Leite Cardoso : A investigação antropológica em áreas urbanas. In: Vozes , Petrópolis, Volume 67, 1973, No. 2, pp. 49-54.
• Os problemas atuais da pesquisa antropológica no Brasil, (antropologia social e cultural). In: Revista de anthropologia , São Paulo, Volume 25, 1982, pp. 159-170.
• O lugar do indio. In: Novos Estudos. Cebrap, São Paulo, Vol. 1, 1982, No. 4, pp. 45-49 ( online ).
• A universidade brasileira. Os impasses da transformação. In: Ciência e cultura , São Paulo, Volume 38, 1986, No. 12, pp. 2004–2018.

None of her works have yet been translated into German.

Web links

• Curriculum Eunice Ribeiro Durham , CNPq, Curriculum Lattes, as of August 2, 2013 (Portuguese)
• Eunice Ribeiro Durham , NUPPs, Núcleo de Pesquisas de Políticas Públicas da USP (Portuguese)
• Literature by and about Eunice Ribeiro Durham in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Curriculum Eunice Ribeiro Durham , CNPq. Retrieved February 19, 2017 (Portuguese).
2. ↑ Eunice Ribeiro Durham ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , NUPPs. Retrieved February 19, 2017 (Portuguese). 
3. ↑ Review: Léa Freitas Perez: “A dinâmica da cultura: ensaios de antropologia” . Retrieved February 19, 2017 (Portuguese).