Jorge Dias – the Greatest Portuguese Ethnographer

Abstract

In this paper I would like to present the one of the most famous portuguese researcher Jorge Dias. He is the greatest twentieth century ethnologists working between 1930–1970. I also describe two of his works featuring rural communities: Vilarinho da Furna. Uma aldeia comunitária and Rio de Onor. Comunitarismo Agro-Pastoril. These works at the same time representing the beginning of changes towards modernism in the portuguese anthropology. What is more, I write shortly about the studies, which were first led by ethnologist in colonial countries that were under Portuguese governments.