Mariza Corrêa
Mariza Corrêa (1 December 1945 – 27 December 2016) was a Brazilian anthropologist and sociologist. She was professor at the Department of Anthropology of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). She was also Unicamp’s Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences from 1989 to 1993.
Also recorded as Mariza Corrêa Silva · Mariza Correa · Mariza Correa Silva
Mariza Corrêa
- Born
- 1945 · Campinas.
- Died
- 2016 · Campinas.
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Occupation
- anthropologist · journalist · writer
- Education
- University of São Paulo · University of Campinas · Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
- Languages
- Portuguese
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Mariza Corrêa. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q9029239 · wikipedia · Mariza Corrêa
In this article
In English
Mariza Corrêa was trained in journalism in the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1969), she started to study social sciences in the State University of Campinas where she graduated in 1975. She earned in 1982 her PhD in Political Sciences at the University of São Paulo with a thesis on Raimundo Nina Rodrigues. Starting in 1984, Corrêa was participated in the “History of Anthropology in Brazil” project (PHAB). The goal was to document the history of Brazilian anthropology from the 1930s to the 1960s. Through the PHAB project, she noticed the lack of information about the contribute of women to anthropology in Brazil and, in 1989, started the “Women Anthropologists & Anthropology” project. Between 1996 and 1998, she was president of the Associação Brasileira de Antropologia.
• “Our mulattos are more exuberant.” História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, 2008. • An interview with Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira'. Current Anthropology, 1991. • Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the first Brazilian anthropology meeting (1953–2003)'. Cadernos Pagu, 2023. • Freud’s nanny and other nannies. Cadernos Pagu, 2008. • Girl-Friday*. Cadernos Pagu, 2023. • History of anthropology in Brazil (1930–1960): Testimonies. BEROSE, 2024. • My encounters with Ruth Landes'. Cadernos Pagu, 2023. • Women Anthropologists & Anthropology Research Project. BEROSE, 2024.
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Mariza Corrêa, revision 1360903149 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
People, houses and institutions
Knowledge graph
People, houses and institutions
Teachers, collaborators, publishers and institutions recorded against this person, each on a stated basis.
Studied at
2- University of CampinasOrganisation
Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.
- University of São PauloOrganisation
Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 29 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
39,529 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Mariya LyudkevychAuthor
- Mariya StepanovaAuthor
- Mariyka PidhiryankaAuthor
- Mariz KemalAuthor
- Marja-Liisa VartioAuthor
- Marjan RožancAuthor
- Marjan StrojanAuthor
- Marjana GaponenkoAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Mariza Corrêa?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.