NEW BIOGRAPHY OF RUY CINATTI Poet, engineer, botanist, ethnologist, Ruy Cinatti was one of the most remarkable and eclectic Portuguese writers on the cultures and landscapes of Timor Leste in the twentieth-century. Click HERE to read historian Cláudia Castelo’s extensively researched biographical sketch of Ruy Cinatti, as part of our Online Dictionary of Biographies. Image credits: Ruy Cinatti in Timor. Espólio de Ruy Cinatti na Biblioteca Universitária João Paulo II, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Disponível em: http://www.snpcultura.org/fotografias/ruy_cinatti/23.jpg
The research team is currently working on the production of an Online Dictionary of Biographies which will present brief biographical articles about some of the most significant Portuguese authors who published on the history and anthropology of East Timor in the period 1850-1975. This dictionary is expected to be a useful research resource for everyone interested in knowing more about the biographical background of those who wrote about Timor Leste in the Portuguese colonial period. Professional anthropologists and ethnographers but […]