Azevedo, Thales de (1904–1995)

Thales de Azevedo (b. 26 August 1904, d. 5 August 1995), Brazilian social scientist and first director of the Instituto de Ciências Sociais at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. Thales Olimpio Góis de Azevedo was born in the city of Salvador, Bahia. He studied medicine and later anthropology and ethnography. Dedicated to the creation of a center for social sciences at Universidade Federal da Bahia, he was one of the authors of the proposal calling for the establishment of such a center. In 1961 the president of the university founded the Instituto de Ciências Sociais and appointed Azevedo the first director.

Azevedo's publications include Gaúchos, notas de antropologia social (1943); Uma pesquisa sobre a vida social no estado da Bahia (with Charles Wagley and Luís de Aguiar Costa Pinto, 1950); Civilização e mestiçagem (1951); Les élites de couleur dans une ville brésilienne (1953); O catolicismo no Brasil (1955); Atualidade de Durkheim (with Nelson Sampaio and A. L. Machado Neto, 1959); Ensaios de antropologia social (1959); Social Change in Brazil (1963); Cultura e situação racial no Brasil (1966); A evasão de talentos (1968); Integração intercultural (1974); Democracia racial, ideologia e realidade (1975); A religião civil brasileira: Um instrumento político (1981).

See alsoSociology .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Florestan Fernandes, A etnologia e a sociologia no Brasil (1958).

Karl N. Degler, Neither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States (1971).

Márcio Moreira Alves, A igreja e a política no Brasil (1979).

Additional Bibliography

Maio, Marcos Chor. "UNESCO and the Study of Race Relations in Brazil: Regional or National Issue?" Latin American Research Review 36:2 (2001): 118-136.

                      Eliana Maria Rea Goldschmidt