The paths of Mariza Corrêa in Portugal: the search for three female figures and their contributions to the history of anthropology

• Grant number: 24/04440-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: November 01, 2024
• End date: October 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Luís Felipe Bueno Sobral
• Grantee: Amanda Gonçalves Serafim
• Supervisor: Frederico Delgado Chaves Rosa
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/05948-9 - A look at the constitution of the history of anthropology in Brazil through the work of Mariza Corrêa: gender, archive and memory, BP.DR

Abstract

Mariza Corrêa (1945-2016) was a Brazilian anthropologist who dedicated herself to two main research themes: gender studies and the history of anthropology, fields she often sought to relate. Regarding the historiography of the discipline, her work was mostly focused on the Brazilian case, but the international scenario was always within her purview (which can be perceived through some of her publications and documents that recount stories of her interests in the practice of this discipline in various contexts). One of her areas of interest was Portuguese anthropology, more specifically, the relationship between gender and the history of the discipline in the country. However, these efforts were never widely publicized, and their traces appear only in her archive (currently deposited in the Edgard Leuenroth Archive at Unicamp). Thus, this proposal for a Research Internship Scholarship Abroad aims to expand the research already carried out in Brazil, encompassing a little-known sphere of Corrêa's work, the circulation of people and ideas between the two countries, continuing the work initiated by the anthropologist regarding the relationship between gender and the history of Portuguese anthropology, as was the case with her reflections on Brazilian anthropology. I will structure my research on this aspect of Corrêa's trajectory based on the path she traced in the early 2000s in the European country, focusing on three female figures (Maria Archer, Margot Dias, and Maria Lamas). Thus, I believe it is possible to expand a debate already conducted in other fields, as well as to understand the contributions of these research interests to the anthropologist's work, as well as to an analysis of her trajectory.