Roberto A. DaMattaRoberto A. DaMatta

Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, csc, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
(PhD, Harvard University, 1971)
email: rdamatta@nd.edu
http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-staff/damatta_roberto/index.shtml

Geographic focus: Latin America (Brazil)

Thematic interests: Social and cultural anthropology; national rituals, ceremonies, and myths; tribal political structures, myths, and ritual symbolism.

Selected Publications: Carnivals, Rogues and Heroes: An Interpretation of the Brazilian Dilemma (Notre Dame Press); A Divided World: Apinayé Social Structure (Harvard University Press); The Brazilian Puzzle (with David Hess, Columbia University Press); Aguias, Burros e Borboletas: Um Estudo Antropologico do Jogo do Bicho (Eagles, Donkeys and Butterflies) (with Elena Soarez, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Rocco, 1999); "Estado e Sociedade e a Casa e a Rua" (State and Society and the House and Street), in Revisão do Paraíso: Os Brasileiros e o Estado em 500 anos de História, ed. Mary Del Priori (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Campus, 2000); "Back to Tristes Tropiques: Notes on Levi-Strauss and Brazil," in Brazil 2001: A Revisionary History of Brazilian Literature and Culture (Dartmouth, 2001).

In the News: DaMatta Quoted in The Washington Post