Raimundo Nina Rodrigues

Raimundo Nina Rodrigues (December 4, 1862 – July 17, 1906) was a Brazilian coroner, psychiatrist, professor, writer, anthropologist and ethnologist. A notable eugenicist, he was also a dietologist, tropicalist, sexologist, hygienist, biographer and epidemiologist.

Raimundo Nina Rodrigues
Born	(1862-12-04)December 4, 1862 Vargem Grande, Maranhão, Empire of Brazil
Died	July 17, 1906(1906-07-17) (aged 43) Paris, France
Education	Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia

Nina Rodrigues is considered the founder of Brazilian criminal anthropology and a pioneer in studies on black culture in the country. A nationalist, he was the first Brazilian scholar to address the theme of black people as a relevant social issue for understanding the racial formation of the Brazilian population, despite adopting a racist, nationalist, scientistic and deterministic perspective, in his book Os Africanos no Brasil (1890–1905).^[1]

Selected works

• Regime alimentar no Norte do Brasil (1881)
• A Morféia em Andajatuba (1886)
• Das amiotrofias de origem periférica (Doctorate thesis, 1888)
• As raças humanas e a responsabilidade penal no Brasil (1894)^[2]
• O animismo fetichista dos negros baianos (1900)
• O alienado no Direito Civil Brasileiro (1901)^[3]
• Manual de autópsia médico-legal (1901)
• Os Africanos no Brasil (1932)^[4]
• As Coletividades anormais (1939)