Mariza Corrêa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mariza Corrêa

Brazilian anthropologist

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1945

Place of Birth: Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Date of Death: 27-Dec-2016

Profession: writer, journalist, anthropologist

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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).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.Between 1996 and 1998, she was president of the Associação Brasileira de Antropologia.