The Civilizational Process
by Darcy Ribeiro
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Como compreender as múltiplas sociedades da América pré-colombiana, que abrigava desde civilizações altamente desenvolvidas até tribos nômades? Como compreender os próprios europeus, que, com diferentes formações sócio-culturais, vieram para cá e ocuparam extensas áreas? Como situar, em relação a esses povos, os numerosos africanos desgarrados trazidos para o Brasil como mão-de-obra escrava? Foram questões dessa natureza que levaram Darcy Ribeiro a empreender, em meados dos anos 60, durante seu exílio no Uruguai, a tarefa monumental de repensar as etapas de evolução da humanidade. O resultado é um livro único, revelador da verve provocativa e estimulante deste grande pensador.
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Darcy Ribeiro was born in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1922. World-renowned anthropologist, minister of education, and personal adviser to President Goulart, Ribeiro lived in exile after the military coup of 1964. Since his return to Brazil, he has added another dimension to his image of Renaissance man---educator, distinguished statesman, lieutenant show more governor of Rio de Janeiro, anthropologist, and now a man of letters. Maira (1978) is the most acclaimed of his novels, with translations in French, German, Spanish, and Italian. The novel's major character is Isaias, a young Amazon Indian who attends a Catholic seminary in Rome and returns to his tribe to become its chieftain. Alma, a young white woman in search of her own spiritual fulfillment, joins a group of missionaries that work among the Mairum, Isaias's people. Their stories of return and of discovery, respectively, become a metaphor for the irreconcilable conflict between the rich and complex culture of the Indians and the modern technological Western civilization. Maira is an elegy of a culture that is disappearing. (Bowker Author Biography) Darcy Ribeiro is one of Brazil's leading 20th-century intellectuals, known internationally both for his work in Indian affairs & for his political activism. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Civilizational Process
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- Grandes nomes do pensamento brasileiro
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- 1968
- Original language*
- Portuguese
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