Gioconda Mussolini: uma travessia bibliográfica

in this paper, i present a few more results from a research work aimed at reconstructing the intellectual trajectory of professor gioconda mussolini, a pioneer in the teaching of anthropology at usp's school of philosophy, from 1944 to 1969. here, i review her most representative production: six articles and a co-authored book, texts on several aspects of the cultural and social life of fishing populations on the coast of s？o paulo state, produced between 1944 and 1961, as a result of numerous, intensive field research studies. the object of this analysis is to show how the set of methodological attitudes revealed in the formulation of the texts leads to a critical overcoming of "community studies," in whose context gioconda had graduated, both as a student at usp and the free school on sociology and politics, and as a colleague and coworker of representatives of this school (donald pierson, emilio willems, and egon schaden, among others). in this aspect, she shares, to a certain extent, her colleagues' view, such as those of antonio candido and florestan fernandes. lastly, i point out the first elements which enable connecting her production to the successive paths in the field of ethno-anthropology of fishing in brazil.