The Bahia that Roberto Albergaria Read: a biography of his private library
Oliveira, Roberto Albergaria de, 1950-2015. Private Library. Biography of Things. Urban Anthropology. Special Collections.
Private libraries usually represent the extension of the memory and thinking of their owner. Based on this assumption, this Master's thesis intends to build a biography of Roberto Albergaria de Oliveira's library (1950-2015), anthropologist, professor and communicator, and by doing so, to find and highlight in his bibliographical heritage, elements that also offer evidence of his process of building the intellectual that is somehow born with keeping one's own library. In this context, the research aims at disclosing the work and the bibliographic Albergarian collection, as well as at demonstrating his contributions to our understanding of Bahia state as he conceived it: realistically and free of stereotypes, and also at explaining in his particular way the history of Bahian anthropology especially as far as its urban dimension or facet is concerned.