Abstract
Founded in 1955, during the II Brazilian Anthropological Meeting (in Salvador), by the commission composed by Álvaro Fróes da Fonseca, Edgard Roquette Pinto, Arthur Ramos and Heloisa Alberto Torres, the Brazilian Anthropological Association (ABA) is one of the biggest and oldest scientific associations in Brazil. Its scope of activity is quite wide. On the one hand, ABA consists of a foru…