Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz


Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiroz was a Brazilian sociologist.

Biography

She obtained her degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo, Diploma of Graduate Studies in sociology, anthropology and politics from the University of São Paulo and a doctorate degree in Sociology from the École pratique des hautes études Section VI.
Her dissertation is titled : La Guerre Sainte au Brésil : le Mouvement Messianique du Contestado, under the direction of Roger Bastide, 1960. Her dissertation was published by the University of São Paulo with the title : "Le Messianisme au Brésil et dans au Monde", in 1963. Her works are referenced worldwide.
Her last position was as professor at the Centro de Estudos Rurais e Urbanos, which she founded, and is Professor Emeritus at the University of São Paulo.
Pereira de Queiróz spoke or understood the following languages: Spanish, French, English and Italian. She died in December 2018 at the age of 100.

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