Background
CAMARA CASCUDO, Luis was born on December 30, 1899 in Natal. Son of Coronel Francisco Cascudo and Ana da Camara Cascudo.
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Luis da CÁMARA CASCUDO
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Career
Professor, folklorist, ethnologist. Professor of hist, of civilization, and director, 1929-1930, Ateneu Norte Rio Grandense. Professor, of hist, of music, Institute de Música.
State deputy, Rio Grande do Norte, 1930. Director, state printing office, 1931. Editor, Revista Jurídica.
Practicing attorney; director, Escola Normal, Natal, and state department, of edn.; secretary, court of appeals. Bachelor of Laws, University do Recife, 1928.
Membership
Member: Institute da Ordem dos Advogados, historical insts. (Rio Grand do Norte, Amazonas, Pará, Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul, Ceará, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Alagôas), Academy Alagoana de Letras, Centro de Ciencias e Letras (Campinas, Sâo Paulo), Society Capistrano de Abreu (Rio de Janeiro), Institute Histórico e Geográfico do Brasil, Society de Estudios Geográficos Argentinos, Société des Américanistes, Institute Portugués d’Arqueologia, Historia e Etnografía (Lisbon), Academy Nacional de Geografía y Historia (Mexico City), Institute Italiano di Studi Americani (Rome), Folklore Society (London), American Folklore Society, American Academy, of Polit, and Social Sciences (Philadelphia), Society Brasileira de Folk Lore (president), Institute Uruguayo de Folk Lore.
Connections
Married Dalia Freire Cascudo. Children: Fernando Luis.
