Abstract
This paper analyses the trajectory and work of Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira. Following his hermeneutical methodology, analysis exemplary monographs and key concepts are analysed throughout his academic career. This trajectory was divided into the young Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira, an ethnologist and the old Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira, a humanist with a hermeneutical perspective. The analysis explores the reflective dimension in the author's work, both in the fieldwork and in the written work, as well as the reflection that ethnography arouses in the public. The work ends by suggesting some insight of the author's anthropological perspective in the field of visual anthropology, rituals and performances.
Key words:
Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira; identities; interpretative anthropology; hermeneutics