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Manuel Viegas Guerreiro (1912–1997) was a Portuguese ethnographer and anthropologist. A disciple of José Leite de Vasconcelos (1858–1941) – one of the ‘founding fathers’ of Portuguese ethnography – Viegas Guerreiro was responsible for the posthumous publication of an important part of Vasconcelos’s work: seven volumes of Etnografia Portuguesa (Portuguese ethnography) and various collections of oral literature. He dedicated himself to collecting oral literature and, at a late stage in his life, wrote monographic studies, specifically on the village of Pitões das Júnias in the Portugal’s northernmost region of Trás-os-Montes, and on the island of São Jorge (Azores). Under the direction of anthropologist António Jorge Dias (1907–1973), he was a member of the Mission for the Study of Ethnic Minorities in Portuguese Overseas Territories, carrying out fieldwork among the Makonde of northern Mozambique and the Bushmen of Angola. His main works are as follows: Os Macondes de Moçambique (Volume 4): Sabedoria, Língua, Literatura e Jogos (The Makonde of Mozambique, vol. 4: Wisdom, Language, Literature and Games, 1966), Bochimanes !Khũ de Angola. Estudo Etnográfico (The Khũ Bushmen of Angola: An Ethnographic Study, 1966) and Pitões das Júnias (1981).

Keywords: Humanist anthropology | Ethnographic expeditions and missions | Ethnography | 20th century | Portugal | Mozambique | Angola | Oral literature

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