Alba Zaluar

Alba Maria Zaluar (2 June 1942 – 19 December 2019) was a Brazilian anthropologist, with emphases in urban anthropology[1] and in anthropology of violence.[2] In 1984, she obtained her PhD in social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.[3]

Alba Maria Zaluar
Zaluar in 2011
Born(1942-06-02)2 June 1942
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died19 December 2019(2019-12-19) (aged 77)
Rio de Janeiro
NationalityBrazilian
OccupationAnthropologist

Biography

Daughter of Achilles Emílio Zaluar and of Biancolina Pinheiro Zaluar, Alba was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she studied to complete the degree in Social Sciences at the Faculdade National of Filosofia (FNFi). During this period, she became part of the Centre of Popular Culture of the National Union of the Students. Following the Coup d'état in Brazil of 1964, the opening of an investigation of the Military Police started a period of political persecution of the students of the FNFi. Zaluar was forced in 1965 to flee her country and to stay abroad until 1971. She stayed most of this time in England, where she studied Anthropology and urban sociology. After returning to Brazil, she focused her research on the popular culture, especially to the samba and the carnival of Rio de Janeiro.

Zaluar worked as invited professor in the State University of Campinas, and as professor in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where she coordinated the "Núcleo de Pesquisas da Violência" (NUPEVI), located in the Institute of Social Medicine.

Zaluar died on 19 December 2019, in Rio de Janeiro.[4]

Honours

References
  1. Comunidad Segura, Marina Lemle (16 February 2011). "Policía de Río: operación 'orden en la casa'" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2011. "Eso es una buena señal porque sin aceptación de los colegas es imposible gerenciar una corporación con conflictos internos tan graves. Pero lo importante es el hecho de que su imagen interna es el de un oficial honesto. La confianza en la delegada es importante para que se recupere también la confianza de la población en la policía".
  2. Alba Zaluar, Libertas. "Morte e vida nas favelas" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  3. Data biográfica
  4. "Morre, aos 77, a antropóloga e especialista em estudos da violência Alba Zaluar". Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 19 December 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  5. Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) (14 July 2004). University of Berkeley (ed.). "Visiting Scholars, 2003–04. Research Associates". Archived from the original on 20 July 2013.
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