“To the master with care”
An encounter with Hugo Ratier
Abstract
We present an approach to the trajectory of Hugo Ratier, based on a personal encounter in which we highlight his experiences and share how they brought him closer to the Anthropology that he later practiced and transmitted. This brief journey begins with my meeting as a student and then a member of one of the research teams led by Hugo, whom I consider a master. He continues to evoke his proximity and experience —since he was a child— with difference, and there his uncle Carybé appears as a central figure. We end this presentation with a selection of excerpts taken from the field notebooks he wrote during the trip he undertook in 1956 —when he was not yet a qualified anthropologist— to San Salvador de Bahía (Brazil), based on his interest in Afro-Brazilian religions.Downloads
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