Brazilian lawyer and writer born in Salvador, State of Bahia, scholar of Afro-Brazilian themes, becoming the greatest national authority regarding cults of African origin and the problems of acculturation of the Africans. He completed all his studies in the capital of Bahia, until he graduated in Legal and Social Sciences from the Faculty of Law of Bahia (1935), he participated in the literary group Academia dos Rebeldes, to which Jorge Amado and Pinheiro Viegas also belonged, and later transferred to Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, where he founded the Campaign for the Defense of Brazilian Folklore, of which he was its first director (1961-1964).
He made a trip to Africa (1961) in order to research in particular the Yoruba, coming from Nigeria and Dahomey, today Benin, and his acculturation in Brazilian society, where he wrote his most important book: Candomblés da Bahia (1948). He has written several other books on religions, folklore and history such as Black Religions (1936), Bantu Negros (1937), O quilombo dos Palmares (1947), Trajetória de Castro Alves (1947), The City of Salvador (1950), Dynamics of Folklore (1950), The Beach Insurrection (1960) and Ladinos and Creoles (1964) and died in Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de January.
Source: http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/
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