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Jorge Dias
Jorge Dias | |
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| Born | July 31, 1907 Porto, Portugal |
| Died | February 5, 1973 (aged 65) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Other names | António Jorge Dias |
| Alma mater | University of Coimbra, Portugal, University of Munich, Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Ethnologist, Museum director |
| Years active | 1945–1973 |
| Notable work | Os Macondes de Moçambique |
| Spouse | Margot Dias |
António Jorge Dias (31 July 1907 – 5 February 1973) was a Portuguese ethnologist. He is mainly known for his ethnographic fieldwork in the late 1950s during Portuguese colonial times in Angola and Mozambique. Based on this, he and his wife, the self-trained ethnologist Margot Dias, published three ethnographic volumes titled Os Macondes de Moçambique about the Makonde people of northern Mozambique. Further, Dias was the first director of the Museu de Etnología do Ultramar that later became the Museu Nacional de Etnología in Lisbon.
Notwithstanding his general acceptance of assimilationist concepts of Portuguese colonial rule and having authored classified reports about attitudes towards this rule in the later colonial era of Mozambique, Dias has been called "the most important Portuguese anthropologist of the 20th century."[1]
- ^ Pinto dos Santos, Mariana (2023-12-07). "Troping the "primitive" in Portuguese narratives of modernity and colonialism". In Cunha Leal, Joana; Pinto dos Santos, Mariana (eds.). The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms. Taylor & Francis. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-003-83329-1.
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