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On May 23rd, 2018, the anthropologist Sergio Figueiredo Ferretti died of heart failure at the age of 80, in São Luís, in Maranhão state, Brazil. Ferretti, as he was known, graduated in History (UB/UFRJ 1962) and Museology (MHN/UniRio 1962), with specialization in the Sociology of Development (UCL Belgium 1964/66), a master’s degree in Social Sciences Anthropology (UFRN 1983) and a doctorate in Social Anthropology (USP 1991). Spanning 50 years, his career was dedicated to the study of religions of African origin and manifestations of popular culture in Maranhão, training several generations of researchers in the study of religions. Ferretti participated in the foundation of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Social Sciences at the Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil, and also had a strong presence and participation in official bodies related to culture in this state. He was known nationally and internationally for the studies produced with his wife, the anthropologist Mundicarmo da Rocha Ferretti. His main books – Querebentã do Zomadônu. Etnografia da Casa das Minas do Maranhão (1983) and Repensando o Sincretismo: Estudo sobre a Casa das Minas (1991), extend and advance beyond the works of Nunes Pereira, Roger Bastide and Pierre Verger on this Mina-Jeje house of worship in Maranhão. On the occasion of his death, many fellow anthropologists and sociologists from various universities in Brazil wrote messages of condolences: Eliane O ‘Dwyer, Peter Fry, Miriam Grossi, Salete Barbosa, Antonio Mota, Antonio Carlos Souza Lima, Margarida Maria Moura, Mario Brasil, Maria José Aquino, Jane Beltrão, Emilia Pietrafesa de Godoy, José Ricardo Ramalho, Neide Esterci, Manuel Ferreira Filho and many others. The Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA) and the National Association of Graduate Studies in Social Sciences (ANPOCS) published eulogies on their websites and Facebook pages. Some colleagues, like Miriam Grossi, ABA’s former president, stated in her message that Ferretti was one of the icons of Brazilian anthropology. Antonio Motta, ABA’s current vice-president, mentioned the importance of the Afro-digital museum, founded by Ferretti, as well as the intelligent and generous intellectual dialogue he established with his peers. Margarida Maria Moura, for her part, highlighted another of Ferretti’s qualities: he had extreme respect for his peers, so much so that he once enrolled on a course about Franz Boas taught by Margarida at the Federal University of Maranhão. He sat down among the students as one of them, which moved her a lot. On that occasion, he took her to see the terreiros, which was how the Ferretti couple welcomed colleagues from various parts of Brazil and from other countries, always extremely generous and hospitable. Among so many emotional messages, however, a phrase from Peter Fry struck me: he wrote that Ferretti was someone with his head and heart in the same place. His words expressed the integrity and wholeness of the trajectory of Ferretti who, indeed, loved what he did, completely devoted to his work, committed to his research and teaching and to UFMA as a knowledge-producing institution. At the university, where he was a professor for decades and subsequently emeritus professor, he never sought out administrative positions, preferring to dedicate himself to consolidating the institution’s undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Social Sciences and Public Policies. Along with his wife Mundicarmo, he also maintained the Research Group on Religion and Popular Culture – GP Mina – one of the oldest anthropological research groups at UFMA.

Sergio Figueiredo Ferretti - in memoriam (08/11/1937 - 23/05/2018)