Eduardo Mondlane and the social sciences

  • Sansone L
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Focusing on his life and academic production, especially the long eleven years that he spent in the United States, in this text I explore the complex relation between the first President of the Mozambique Liberation Front Eduardo Mondlane and the social sciences - the academic world of sociology and anthropology. I do so through an analysis of the correspondence between Mondlane and several social scientists, especially Melville Herskovits, the mentor for his master's and doctoral degrees in sociology, and Marvin Harris, who followed his famous study of race relations in Brazil with research in Lourenço Marques in 1958 on the system of social and race relations produced under Portuguese colonialism. My main argument is that his academic training bore on Mondlane's political style more than normally assumed in most biographical accounts.Enfocando sua vida e produçao academica, sobretudo os longos onze anos que ele passou nos Estados Unidos, neste texto me debruço sobre a complexa relaçao entre Eduardo Mondlane, o primeiro presidente da Frente de Libertaçao de Moçambique, e as ciencias sociais - o mundo academico da sociologia e da antropologia. Para isso analizei a correspondencia entre ele e diversos cientistas sociais, especialmente Melville Herskovits, que foi seu mentor tanto no mestrado quanto no doutorado in sociologia, e Marvin Harris, que apos seu famoso estudo sobre as relaçoes raciais no Brasil, foi fazer pesquisa na cidade de Lourenço Marques sobre o sistema de relaçoes sociais e raciais que o colonialismo portugues tinha criado. Meu principal argumento è que esta formaçao academica teve muita mais influença sobre o estilo politico de Mondlane do que normalmente indicado em suas biografias.

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Sansone, L. (2013). Eduardo Mondlane and the social sciences. Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 10(2), 73–111. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1809-43412013000200003

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