| Raimundo Nina Rodrigues | |
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| Born | (1862-12-04)December 4, 1862 Vargem Grande, Maranhão, Empire of Brazil |
| Died | July 17, 1906(1906-07-17) (aged 43) Paris, France |
| Education | Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia |
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.
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).
Selected works
- 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)
- O animismo fetichista dos negros baianos (1900)
- O alienado no Direito Civil Brasileiro (1901)
- Manual de autópsia médico-legal (1901)
- Os Africanos no Brasil (1932)
- As Coletividades anormais (1939)
References
- 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.