“…During the 1930's and again for a short period after World War II, many distinguished French scholars, recruited by Dumas and others, answered the call to SaÄ o Paulo. These included Paul Arbousse-Bastide (Philosophy), Roger Bastide and Jacques Lambert (Sociology), Pierre Deffontaines and Pierre Monbeig (Geography), Charles Moraze (History) and FrancË ois Perroux (Economics) (for more detail, see Reidinger, 2001). The most distinguished of all, as noted earlier, were Claude Le vi-Strauss and Fernand Braudel.…”