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Darcy Ribeiro | |
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| Senator forRio de Janeiro | |
| In office February 1, 1991 – February 17, 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Jamil Haddad |
| Succeeded by | Abdias do Nascimento |
| Vice Governor ofRio de Janeiro | |
| In office March 15, 1983 – March 15, 1987 | |
| Governor | Leonel Brizola |
| Preceded by | Hamilton Xavier |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Amaral |
| Chief of Staff of the Presidency | |
| In office June 18, 1963 – April 2, 1964 | |
| President | João Goulart |
| Preceded by | Evandro Lins e Silva |
| Succeeded by | Getúlio de Moura |
| Minister of Education | |
| In office September 18, 1962 – January 23, 1963 | |
| Prime Minister | Hermes Lima |
| Preceded by | Roberto Lira |
| Succeeded by | Teotônio Monteiro de Barros |
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| Born | (1922-10-26)October 26, 1922 Montes Claros,Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Died | February 17, 1997(1997-02-17) (aged 74) Brasília,Federal District, Brazil |
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| Alma mater | Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo (BA) |
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Darcy Ribeiro (October 26, 1922 – February 17, 1997) was a Braziliananthropologist,historian,sociologist, author and politician. His ideas have influenced several scholars of Brazilian and Latin American studies. AsMinister of Education of Brazil he carried out profound reforms which led him to be invited to participate in university reforms inChile,Peru,Venezuela,Mexico andUruguay after leaving Brazil due to the1964 coup d'état.[1]
Darcy Ribeiro was born inMontes Claros, in the state ofMinas Gerais,[2] the son of Reginaldo Ribeiro dos Santos and of Josefina Augusta da Silveira. He completed his primary and secondary education in his native town, at the Grupo Escolar Gonçalves Chaves and at the Ginásio Episcopal de Montes Claros.
He is best known for development work in the areas of education, sociology andanthropology and for being, along with his friend and colleague Anísio Teixeira, one of the founders of theUniversity of Brasília in the early 1960s. He also served as the first rector of that university,[2] and the campus is named after him. He was the founder of theState University of Norte Fluminense (Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense) as well. He wrote numerous books, many of them about the indigenous populations of Brazil.
During the first mandate of governorLeonel Brizola inRio de Janeiro (1983–1987), Darcy Ribeiro created, planned and directed the implementation of the "Integrated Centers for Public Instruction" (Centros Integrados de Ensino Público), a visionary and revolutionary pedagogical project of assistance for children, including recreational and cultural activities beyond formal instruction – making concrete the projects envisioned decades earlier by Anísio Teixeira. Long before politicians incorporated the importance of education for the development of Brazil into their discourse, Darcy Ribeiro andLeonel Brizola had already developed these ideals.
In the elections of 1986, Ribeiro was the Democratic Labor Party (PDT) candidate for the governorship of Rio de Janeiro, running againstFernando Gabeira (at that time affiliated with theWorkers’ Party), Agnaldo Timóteo of the Social Democratic Party (PDS) and Moreira Franco of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB). Ribeiro was defeated, being unable to overcome the high approval rating of Moreira who was elected due to the popularity of the then-recent currency reform, the Cruzado Plan (Plano Cruzado). Another defeat was in 1994, when he was Brizola's running-mate in thepresidential election; Darcy Ribeiro was alsochief of staff (Ministro-chefe da Casa Civil) in the cabinet of PresidentJoão Goulart, vice-governor of Rio de Janeiro from 1983 to 1987 and exercised the mandate of senator from Rio de Janeiro from 1991 until his death. Darcy Ribeiro was elected to theBrazilian Academy of Letters (Academia Brasileira de Letras) on October 8, 1992. His election was to Chair Number 11, which has as its PatronFagundes Varela. He was formally received into the Academy on April 15, 1993, by authorCândido Mendes. He died in Brasília, aged 74.
Darcy Ribeiro's ideas belonged to theevolutionist school of sociology and anthropology, and his main influences wereNeoevolutionistsLeslie White andJulian Steward, and the Marxist archeologistV. Gordon Childe. He believed that people went through a "civilizatory process" beginning ashunter-gatherers. This "civilizatory process" was according to him marked bytechnological revolutions, and among these he stress the eight more important as the following:
Ribeiro proposed also a classification scheme for the world peoples, emphasizing the American countries, where he identified "New Peoples" (Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Venezuela etc.), that merged from the mix of several cultures; "Witness Peoples" (Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala etc), remnants of ancient civilizations; and "Transplanted Peoples" (USA, Canada, Argentina and Uruguay), European diasporas without significative other people influences.[3]
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| Preceded by Roberto Lira | Minister of Education 1962–1963 | Succeeded by Teotônio Monteiro de Barros |
| Preceded by | Chief of Staff of the Presidency 1963–1964 | Succeeded by Getúlio de Moura |
| Preceded by Hamilton Xavier | Vice Governor ofRio de Janeiro 1983–1987 | Succeeded by Francisco Amaral |
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| Preceded by Deolindo Couto | 7th Academic of the 11th Chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters 1993–1997 | Succeeded by |
