Virginia Gutierrez de Pineda ( November 4, 1921 , El Socorro, Santander - September 2, 1999 , Bogotá ) is an outstanding Colombian anthropologist , a pioneer of Colombian family and medical anthropology.
| Virginia Gutierrez de Pineda | |
|---|---|
| Spanish Virginia gutiérrez de pineda | |
| Date of Birth | November 4, 1921 |
| Place of Birth | El Socorro, Santander |
| Date of death | September 2, 1999 (aged 77) |
| Place of death | Bogota |
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| Scientific field | anthropology |
| Place of work | |
| Alma mater | National Institute of Education Colombia National Institute of Technology Colombia |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Philosophy in Social Sciences and Economics |
| Known as | pioneer of Colombian family and medical anthropology |
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Biography
Educated at the National Institute of Pedagogy (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Colombia), Normal Higher School of Preschool and Basic Education at the National University of Colombia and the Colombian National Institute of Technology, where in 1944 received a degree in anthropology.
She continued her studies in the field of social and medical anthropology at the graduate school of the University of California at Berkeley (1953-1954), in 1962 she defended a Ph.D. in social sciences and economics at the National University of Education.
Awards and Recognitions
- Medal to them. Camilo Torres (1963)
- In 1967 she was recognized as "Woman of the Year" in Colombia.
- In 1968 she was awarded the Alejandro Angel Escobar Prize.
- Inter-American Family Congress Medal (1983)
- In 2016, her image was placed on a Colombian banknote of 10,000 pesos.
Selected Publications
- La medicina popular en Colombia
- Razones de un arraigo (1961)
- Organización social en la Guajira
- La familia en Colombia: estudio antropológico (1962).
- Familia y cultura en Colombia (1963)
- Causas culturales de la mortalidad infantil
- La medicina popular en Colombia: razones de su arraigo (1964).
- Estructura, función y cambio de la familia en Colombia (1976).