Roger Bastide

Roger Bastide ( born April 1, 1898 in Nîmes, † April 10, 1974 in Maisons -Laffitte ) was a French sociologist and anthropologist specializing in the sociology and literature in Brazil.

In 1938 he became professor of sociology at the new University of São Paulo. As a professor of Sociology from 1938 to 1957, he published numerous articles and studies in Portuguese with a focus on African religions in Brazil and Africa.

In 1950 he became Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Religion at the Sorbonne and published on the topics of sociology and psychoanalysis. He headed the journal L' Année sociologique 1962 to 1974, the Center for Social Psychiatry and the Laboratory of Sociology of knowledge. His recent works dealing with mental illness among Africans and people of the West Indies, who live in France, and with the adaptive behavior of the former deportees to which he gained a wealth of documents.

Writings

• Problèmes de la vie mystique (1931 )
• Éléments de sociologie religieuse (1935 )
• Psychanalyse you Cafuné (1941 )
• Art et société (1945 )
• Images you nordeste mystique en noir et blanc (1945 )
• Sociologie et psychanalyse (1948 )
• La sociale psychiatrie (1949 )
• Brésil, terre des contrastes (1957 )
• Le Candomblé de Bahia (1958 )
• Les religions africaines au Brésil (1960 )
• Sociology of mental maladies (1965 )
• Les Amériques noires: les civilizations africaines dans le Nouveau Monde (1967 )
• Le prochain et le lointain (1970 )
• Anthropology appliquée (1971 )
• Le rêve, et la transe la folie (1972 )
• Anatomy d' André Gide (1972 )
• La notion de personne en Afrique noire (1973 )
• Poètes et Dieux. Etudes Afro- brésiliennes (1973 )
• Le sacre sauvage (1975 )