Raimundo Nina Rodrigues (December 4, 1862 – July 17, 1906) was a Brazilian coroner, psychiatrist, professor, writer, anthropologist and ethnologist. A notable eugenicist, he was also a dietologist, tropicalist, sexologist, hygienist, biographer and epidemiologist.
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| Born | December 4, 1862 |
| Died | July 17, 1906 (aged 43) |
| Education | Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia |
Nina Rodrigues is considered the founder of Brazilian criminal anthropology and a pioneer in studies on black culture in the country. A nationalist, he was the first Brazilian scholar to address the theme of black people as a relevant social issue for understanding the racial formation of the Brazilian population, despite adopting a racist, deterministic perspective, in his book Os Africanos no Brasil (1890–1905).[1]
Selected works
edit- Regime alimentar no Norte do Brasil (1881)
- A Morféia em Andajatuba (1886)
- Das amiotrofias de origem periférica (Doctorate thesis, 1888)
- As raças humanas e a responsabilidade penal no Brasil (1894)[2]
- O animismo fetichista dos negros baianos (1900)
- O alienado no Direito Civil Brasileiro (1901)[3]
- Manual de autópsia médico-legal (1901)
- Os Africanos no Brasil (1932)[4]
- As Coletividades anormais (1939)
References
edit- ^ Canevacci, Massimo (2012-03-23). Polyphonic Anthropology: Theoretical and Empirical Cross-Cultural Fieldwork. BoD – Books on Demand. ISBN 978-953-51-0418-6.
- ^ "As raças humanas e a responsabilidade penal no Brasil". Brasiliana. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
- ^ "O alienado no direito civil brasileiro". Brasiliana. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
- ^ "Os africanos no Brasil". Brasiliana. Retrieved 2015-11-08.