Everardo Rocha

Everardo Pereira Guimarães Rocha (Rio de Janeiro, October 1, 1951) is a Brazilian anthropologist dedicated to the study of consumption, advertising, and Brazilian culture. He earned his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the National Museum of Brazil at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1989. He is a Professor in the Department of Communication and its graduate program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, where he has taught since 1976.
In his works, Everardo Rocha articulates perspectives from the fields of Anthropology and Communication. He has been indicated as one of the first anthropologists in Brazil to dedicate himself to research on consumption. HERSCHMANN, Micael e VILLAÇA, Nízia. Expandsão dos estudos de consumo (entrevista com Everardo Rocha). ECO-PÓS- v.9, n.2, agosto-dezembro 2006, pp.78-87Travancas, Isabel e Nogueira, Silvia. "A Comunicação de Massa no campo da Antropologia". In: Travancas, Isabel e Nogueira, Silvia (org.), Antropologia da comunicação de massa. Campina Grande: EDUEPB, 2016.
Since the 1980s, he has contributed to the consolidation and expansion of studies in the anthropology of consumption. First published in 1985, 
 his book titled Magia e Capitalismo [Magic and Capitalism] is acknowledged for stimulating the development of research on consumption from an anthropological perspective in Brazilian academia.Longhini, Letícia e Londero, Rodolfo. Teorias da publicidade: a perspectiva antropológica de Everardo Rocha em Magia e Capitalismo. In Perez, Clotilde e Trindade, Eneus (org.). II Pró-Pesq - Encontro Nacional de Pesquisadores em Publicidade e Propaganda - Como anda a publicidade?: porque pesquisar faz bem. São Paulo: ABP2, 2011.
Everardo Rocha’s work explores advertising and consumption as phenomena similar to the classification system known as totemism, as Claude Lévi-Strauss studied it. Rocha, Everardo. Advertising and consumption: anthropological studies in Brazil. London: Routledge, 2022.. Hence, he suggests consumption and advertising representations are central spaces for the expression and experience of magical thought in contemporary urban cultures. According to Roberto DaMatta, Everardo Rocha’s contribution “is characterized by an intelligent and resolute investigation of the modern world as a gigantic structure of consumption, magic, ideological persuasion, and (...) dreams.”DaMatta, Roberto. Vendendo totens: prefácio prazeroso para Everardo Rocha. In Rocha, Everardo. Magia e Capitalismo: um estudo antropológico da publicidade. 4ª ed. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 2010.
Furthermore, Rocha has contributed to studies in Social Anthropology and Brazilian culture through books such O que é Etnocentrismo [What is Ethnocentrism] and O que é Mito [What is Myth]. He also participated in the research for Cacá Diegues’s film Quilombo.
==Selected Books== 
*Advertising and consumption: anthropological studies in Brazil. London: Routledge, 2022. ISBN 9781003176794
*O paraíso do consumo: Émile Zola, a magia e os grandes magazines. Rio de Janeiro: Mauad, 2016 (with Marina Frid and William Corbo). ISBN 978-8574788449
*A sociedade do sonho: comunicação, cultura e consumo. Rio de Janeiro: Mauad, 1995. ISBN 978-8574784649
*Palmares: mito e romance da utopia brasileira. Rio de Janeiro: Rio Fundo Editora, 1991 (with Carlos Diegues).
*O que é mito. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1986. ISBN 978-8511011517 
*O que é etnocentrismo. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1985. ISBN 978-8511011241
*Magia e capitalismo: um estudo antropológico da publicidade. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1985. ISBN 978-8511000382 
*Quilombo: história e sociedade. Rio de Janeiro: Embrafilme/Mec, 1984 (with Maria Fernanda Bicalho).
Category:1951 births
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