Darcy Ribeiro, Civilisation and Nation: Social Theory from Latin America [Paperback]

Introduction

Part I - Darcy Ribeiro's Pathways

1. ?Darcy Ribeiro, the Brazilian

2. Darcy Ribeiro, the Latin American citizen

3. Our destiny

Part II - The Civilizational Process

4. Civilizations, totality and heterogeneity

5. Darcy Ribeiros theory of history

Part III - The Americas, Latin America and Brazil

6. Rewriting the Americas History

7. Does Latin America exist?

8. The Brazilian People: Integration and heterogeneity

Part IV - Promising dialogues and epistemological turns

9. Darcy Ribeiro, Class, Race, and Nation (Interfaces with Black Intellectuals)

10. Post(de)colonial Conversations

Conclusion

This book introduces the life and work of Darcy Ribeiro (19221997), one of the foremost exponents of Brazilian/Latin American social thought in the twentieth century.

This book introduces the life and work of Darcy Ribeiro (19221997), one of the foremost exponents of Brazilian/Latin American Social thought in the 20th century.

Ribeiro was an anthropologist, indigenist ethnographer, social scientist, and planner and creator of universities and schools and held various political offices. This book examines Ribeiros work in conversation with other great names of Latin American critical thought and introduces the contemporary epistemological movement he inspired, Modernity-Coloniality-Decoloniality. It presents the 12 years of Latin American exile to which he was subjected in the 1960s to 1970s, highlighting the fame he gained as a reformer of universities on the continent. Finally, the book builds two new dlÓ.