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He was born in Paysandú, Uruguay in 1920. An anthropologist, researcher, essayist, and educator. He served as Director of the Anthropology Department at the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences of the University of the Republic (Universidad de la República), Professor of Environmental Anthropology in the Environmental Engineering Graduate Program at the National University of Colombia, Professor of Anthropology at the National University, and Director of the Center for Agrarian Studies at the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile.

He taught sociology courses at the IPA (Artigas Teacher Training Institute) and Cultural Anthropology courses in the Anthropology Department of the University of the Republic, as well as in the Education Sciences Graduate Program at the IPA.

He worked for twelve years as a UNESCO expert on agrarian and Environmental Education issues in Colombia and Venezuela.

Within the same United Nations agency, he was a member of the International College of Experts for the study of Human Ecology in Arid Zones.

Throughout his career, he has received numerous distinctions, including: the Morosoli de Plata Award (1996); the Bartolomé Hidalgo Career Achievement Award (1996); the Morosoli de Oro Award (2000); Illustrious Citizen of Montevideo (2007); Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Republic (2013); and the National Grand Prize (2018). He is a member of the National Academy of Letters of Uruguay.

He has published over fifty books on anthropological, sociological, environmental, and historical topics in Uruguay, Spain, and Colombia.