A member of the Instituto Português de Arqueologia, História e Etnografia [Portuguese Institute of Archaeology, History, and Ethnography] (1933), the Prehistory Section of the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa [Lisbon Geographical Society], since 1962, and a Corresponding and Numbered Scholar of the Academia Portuguesa da História [Portuguese Academy of History] (1970, 1980), M. Farinha dos Santos joined the Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses [Association of Portuguese Archaeologists], since 1967, and, in 1969, he became its director and chair of the prehistoric section, while co-organising a colloquium on archaeological terminology, editing its journal, running the museum and acting as secretary of the II Archaeology Days (1972). On 28 May 1998, he was honoured by the Autonomous University of Lisbon, with Rector Justino Mendes de Almeida (1924-2012) delivering a tribute titled “Manuel Farinha dos Santos: uma vida consagrada à Arqueologia (40 anos de atividade cultural)” [Manuel Farinha dos Santos: A Life Devoted to Archaeology (40 Years of Cultural Activity)] (Elogio do Prof. Dr., 2013, 24). Later, on 23 April 2002, his Eulogy was formally presented at the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Portuguese Academy of History. This tribute acknowledges a significant figure in Portuguese archaeology whose legacy, entwined with the production of knowledge and archaeological heritage, must be critically examined within the context of political ideology and institutional collaboration with the Estado Novo. Such scrutiny is essential to understand one of the most obscure chapters in Portugal's intellectual history — one that navigates between research grounded in the description of excavated artefacts and a historical perspective shaped to align with the nationalist narrative of the Estado Novo.

Torre do Tombo Archive — Directorate-General for Books, Archives, and Libraries (minutes of meetings from the 2nd Subsection of the 6th Section of the Directorate-General for Higher Education and Fine Arts); Archive of the Institute of High Culture (held by the Camões Institute) (individual file of Manuel Farinha dos Santos); Historical Archive of the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists (minutes of meetings of the Management, the General Assembly, and the Prehistory Section); Historical Archive of the Lisbon Geographical Society (minutes of the Prehistory Section); Historical Archive of the Ministry of Education (minutes of meetings from the 2nd Subsection of the 6th Section of the Directorate-General for Higher Education and Fine Arts); Historical Archive of the National Archaeological Museum (correspondence from Manuel Heleno).

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