Book
The colored elite in a Brazilian city
UNESCO • Paris • Published In 1953 • Pages:
By: Azevedo, Thales de, Schütze, Frieda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is an account on the racial situation in Bahian society. According to it, upward social mobility is somewhat impeded but by no means precluded by negroid racial origin. Evaluation of the individual is based rather on personal merit and position within a particular social class than on race. The lack of racial separatism is particularly true for the educational system and liberal professions. It should be noted that on page 88, footnote 1, the author speaks of additional field work he has done in the state of Bahia, in particular, reference to a series of anthropometric studies he made in 1944 and 1947. This would indicate that the author's knowledge of the area is much broader than the 1951 date in the heading would indicate.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethnosociology
- Ethnic stratification
- Classes
- Political parties
- Elections
- Social relationships and groups
- Talent mobility
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bahia Brazilians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern South America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sigrid Khera ; John Beierle ; 1970
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Feb. 1951 - Oct. 1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850-1953
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Town of Bahia (Salvador), State of Bahia, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thales de Azevedo ; photographs by Pierre Verger
- Translation of: Les élites de couleur dans une ville brésilienne
- It should be noted that on page 88, footnote 1, the author speaks of additional field work he has done in the state of Bahia, in particular, reference to a series of anthropometric studies he made in 1944 and 1947. This would indicate that the author's knowledge of the area is much broader than the 1951 date in the heading would indicate.
- Translated from the French for HRAF by Frieda Schütze
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 68039024
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bahia (Brazil : State)