13 Facts About Darcy Ribeiro

Darcy Ribeiro was a Brazilian anthropologist, historian, sociologist, author and politician.

Darcy Ribeiro's ideas have influenced several scholars of Brazilian and Latin American studies.

Darcy Ribeiro completed his primary and secondary education in his native town, at the Grupo Escolar Goncalves Chaves and at the Ginasio Episcopal de Montes Claros.

Darcy Ribeiro is best known for development work in the areas of education, sociology and anthropology and for being, along with his friend and colleague Anisio Teixeira, one of the founders of the University of Brasilia in the early 1960s.

Darcy Ribeiro served as the first rector of that university, and the campus is named after him.

Darcy Ribeiro was the founder of the State University of Norte Fluminense as well.

Darcy Ribeiro wrote numerous books, many of them about the indigenous populations of Brazil.

Darcy 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.

Darcy Ribeiro was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters on October 8,1992.

Darcy Ribeiro's election was to Chair Number 11, which has as its Patron Fagundes Varela.

Darcy Ribeiro was formally received into the Academy on April 15,1993, by author Candido Mendes.

Darcy Ribeiro's ideas belonged to the evolutionist school of sociology and anthropology, and his main influences were Neoevolutionists Leslie White and Julian Steward, and the Marxist archeologist V Gordon Childe.

Darcy Ribeiro believed that people went through a "civilizatory process" beginning as hunter-gatherers.