Pedro Geoffroy Rivas

Salvadoran anthropologist, poet, and linguist

Pedro Geoffroy Rivas

Born	(1908-09-16)16 September 1908 San Salvador, El Salvador
Died	10 November 1979(1979-11-10) (aged 71) San Salvador, El Salvador
Alma mater	National Autonomous University of Mexico

Pedro Geoffroy Rivas (16 September 1908 - 10 November 1979) was an anthropologist, poet, and linguist.

His poetic work marked a landmark in Salvadoran poetic development. A rebellious, individualistic poet, Rivas incorporated in his poetry the freedom to express himself openly without fear of ordinariness or anthropocentric turns. Rivas and Oswaldo Escobar Velado are known as the founders of the modern protest poetry of El Salvador.^[1] Rivas was a member of Mexican Communist Party and Salvadoran Communist Party in the 1930s. His work influenced Pablo Neruda.

Education

Rivas studied Anthropology Mexico at the University of New Mexico and obtained his Master's degree from the university.^[2]

Bibliography

Poetry

Canciones en el viento (1933)
Rumbo (1935)
Para cantar mañana (1935)
Solo Amor (1963)
Yulcuicat (1965)
Cuadernos del Exilio
Los nietos del jaguar (1977)
Vida, pasión y muerte del antihombre (1978)

Anthropology and Linguistics

Toponimia náhuat de Cuscatlán (1961, corregida y aumentada 1973)
El español que hablamos en El Salvador (1969 y 1975)
El nawat de Cuscatlán - Apuntes para una gramática Tentativa (1969)
Mi Alberto Masferrer (1953)
La lengua salvadoreña (1978)

References

^ Beverley, John; Zimmerman, Marc (1990). Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions (First ed.). Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 121. ISBN 9780292746725.
^ Blutstein, Howard I. (1971). Area Handbook for El Salvador. Vol. 150. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 132–133.