ARTHUR RAMOS: INTELLECTUAL IN PERSPECTIVE

The work is the result of research on the intellectual Arthur Ramos, their theoretical reflections and the effects on social and educational field. Arthur Ramos, complex, multifaceted intellectual, reflected on several themes, thinking the Brazil as modern "nation", like other intellectuals in the passage from the XIX century to the XX century. Through social networks of which participated and the public office he held, including the leadership of the Ortofrenia Service and Mental Hygiene, of the Educational Research Institute, administration of Anisio Teixeira, as Director of Public Instruction, Rio de Janeiro, in the decade of 1930. Deploys the service that is based on the close the proximity between family, school and community, with the prospect to reach the families and the school population. The focus is the conceptual discussion of " hygiene" and "miscegenation", with attention to this debate, its intellectual conceptions, inflections and contradictions. Are used as sources some of the major works produced by Ramos, so files about the SHOM, under administration National Library.