An anthropologist, university professor and researcher, she has published books and articles on society, culture and politics, and has founded the ‘Comunidade Solidária’ Program.
The Ruth Cardoso Collection, which is held by Fundação FHC, contains documents produced and collected by her regarding her life in family, academic, and political spheres, encompassing the period in which she was first lady of Brazil.
The chronological markers coincide with the dates that delimit the owner’s existence, between 1930 and 2008. The presence of documents that go beyond these dates, which is common in personal archives, is due to the existence of items from ancestors and generational links. There are also those gathered after the owner’s death, especially biographies and tributes, which complete and clarify the archive she had accumulated.
The collection totals almost 3,000 textual, iconographic, and audiovisual items, as well as some objects. Of this universe, the vast majority can be freely examined, with a 15% portion, made up mainly of personal correspondence, still under reserve.
Family and social life
The archive holds family documents as part of Ruth Villaça Corrêa Leite’s (her maiden name) memorial interest. Photos and civil identity documents coexist with less conventional pieces, such as his mother’s writings or those reflecting friendships.
Among the family and social documents, some belong to the couple and it is impossible to attribute them exclusively to one of them. These are letters from friends, photos and an audiovisual recording of an interview they did together. Of this group, 90 documents are available online.
Ruth Cardoso aos 9 anos (Araraquara, 1939)
Salvo conduto brasileiro
Mariquita Vilaça e a filha Ruth (Araraquara, 1940)
Casamento de Ruth e Fernando Henrique (Rio de Janeiro, 1953)
Defesa de doutoramento de Mariquita Vilaça, mãe de Ruth (Araraquara, 1967)
As companheiras de luta política, Ruth Escobar e Ruth Cardoso (Brasília, década de 1990)
Requerimento de Ruth, para inscrição de Fernando Henrique em concurso da USP (São Paulo, 1968)
Conselho aos pais de primeira viagem, Paulo Henrique e Ana Lúcia (década de 1980)
Luciana, Ruth, Beatriz e Fernando Henrique (Chile, 1974)
Caderno de receitas de tricô de Mariquita Vilaça, guardado no arquivo da filha, Ruth
As companheiras de luta política, Ruth Escobar e Ruth Cardoso (Brasília, década de 1990)
Ruth e Malak Poppovic, com amigos, no santuário Gurdwara Bangla Sahib em Nova Délhi (India, 1997)
Ruth Cardoso com os netos, Pedro e Isabel
Academic life
Teaching, guidance and research
Ruth Cardoso’s works are the main testimony to her career as an intellectual. There are 90 documents available for consultation on the web, including theses, books, communications, interviews, lectures and articles in collections and scientific journals.
Many documents depict her academic career both at the Universidade de São Paulo and at other institutions – ABA, Cebrap, Flacso, University of California Berkeley, Columbia University and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. They include communications, abstracts, course notebooks, lesson plans, congress programs, research questionnaires, invitations, certificates and letters. At Cebrap, from 1984 onwards, Ruth Cardoso coordinated various research projects, as can be seen in her projects, reports and interviews.
Plano de aulas de Ruth Cardoso (década de 1950)
Anais da II Reunião Brasileira de Antropologia (Recife, 1959)
Anotações de pesquisa (década de 1960)
Reunião do Comitê de Ciências Sociais da Fundação Ford, com Ruth Cardoso, Fábio Wanderley Reis, Leona Forman, ?, José Murilo de Carvalho (sentados); ?, Juarez Brandão, ? e Bóris Fausto (Rio de Janeiro, década de 1970)
Homenagem prestada pela Associação Brasileira de Antropologia à Ruth Cardoso (2006)
Visita da imperatriz do Japão, Michiko Shoda, apreciadora do trabalho de Ruth Cardoso sobre a comunidade japonesa em São Paulo (Brasília, 06/1997)
Concessão do título de membro honorário da The Fulbright Association à Ruth Cardoso
Palestra proferida por Ruth Cardoso na Faculdade de Educação da USP (05/02/1998)
Political life
Towards new public policies
Based on her experience as a researcher, Ruth Cardoso designed one of the most comprehensive programmes to combat poverty and social exclusion in Brazil, ‘Comunidade Solidária’, an organization linked to the Office of the President’s Chief of Staff, but not part of the government. The documents related to the activities of the Program Council over which she presided are the densest and most voluminous in the archive, with a total of about 500 units: projects, activity and evaluation reports, balance sheets, prospectuses, scripts, agendas, invitations. Of particular note are the minutes and reports of the Rounds of Political Interlocution, and the debates held between 1995 and 2002 with members of different levels of government and people linked to the third sector, gathered to study the implementation of public policies.
Around 20 documents testify to part of Ruth Cardoso’s work in the non-governmental organization Comunitas, whereshe consolidated her presence in the field of interrelations between companies, civil society, and public institutions.
Ruth Cardoso e FHC, em campanha para as eleições municipais de 1985
FHC e Ruth Cardoso, em campanha para as eleições senatoriais de 1986
Ordem do Mérito do Chile, grã-cruz, concedida à Ruth Cardoso pelo governo chileno (06/03/1995)
Ruth Cardoso em comício, durante as eleições presidenciais de 1994 (Beberibe – CE)
Presente oferecido ao presidente e à primeira-dama pelo primeiro-ministro do Japão, Ryutaro Hashimoto (26/08/1996)
Reunião do Coletivo de Mulheres do PSDB (década de 1990)
Ruth Cardoso com Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira e Malak Poppovic em viagem à 4ª Conferência Mundial sobre a Mulher (Beijing, 09/1995)
A rainha mãe e o príncipe Philip, Ruth, FHC e Elisabeth II, em banquete oferecido ao governo brasileiro (Londres, 06/12/1997)
Ruth Cardoso na Unesco (27/10/1997)
Medalha Ceres, oferecida à Ruth Cardoso pela FAO (Roma, 26/02/1998)
Evento do Comunidade Solidária (s/d)
Ana Maria, Marco Maciel, Ruth e Fernando Henrique ouvem discurso de José Gregori em evento sobre Direitos Humanos (Brasília, 07/09/1998)
Cortejo para a sessão solene na Assembleia Nacional Da França, com as presenças de Mary e Celso Lafer (Paris, 29/10/2001)
Evento do Programa Capacitação Solidária (10/04/2002)
Additional documentation
After Ruth Cardoso’s death, several documents bore witness to her presence, through biographical essays and collections of works published in specialized periodicals. The archive incorporated these publications and the news about the different tributes paid to her, associating her name with schools, auditoriums, public places and even a new species of orchid.
Ensaio publicado em homenagem à Ruth Cardoso (revista Veja, 02/07//2008)
Biografia escrita por Margarida Cintra Gordinho, ex-aluna na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e colega nos trabalhos do Comunidade Solidária (2008)
Reportagem publicada sobre Ruth Cardoso (Revista Veja, 02/07/2008)
Orquídea batizada com o nome de Ruth Cardoso e inauguração do Orquidário Professora Ruth Cardoso (Paque Villa Lobos, SP, 2010)
Discurso de Yeda Crusius, em homenagem do governo do Rio Grande do Sul à Ruth Cardoso (26/06/2008)
Homenagem prestada à Ruth Cardoso com a renomeação do Centro de Formação de Profissionais da Eduacação (São Bernardo do Campo, 15/12/2008)
Ruth Cardoso. Fragmentos de uma vida. De Ignácio Loyola Brandão (2010)
Reunião dos textos produzidos entre 1954 e 1994 sobre a sociedade brasileira contemporânea, organizada por Teresa Pires do Rio Caldeira (2011)
Prêmio Brasileiro Imortal, concedido a Ruth Cardoso pela Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Rio de Janeiro, 31/10/2008)
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