Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda

Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda (November 4, 1921, El Socorro, Santander[1] – September 2, 1999, Bogotá) was a Colombian anthropologist who pioneered work on Colombian family and medical anthropology.

Biography

She received her education at the National Pedagogy Institute, the Escuela Normal Superior of Colombia and the National Technology Institute, where she obtained her degree in Anthropology in 1944. She pursued graduate studies in Social and Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley (1953-1954) and, in 1962, she received her PhD in Social Sciences and Economics at the National University of Pedagogy. She was named Woman of the Year in Colombia in 1967 and, a year later, she won the Alejandro Ángel Escobar Award. In her career, she has also received two medals honoring her merits, the Camilo Torres medal (1963) and another medal awarded by the interamerican congress of family (1983). Within her many accomplishments, she has also worked for the Guarnimiento foundation in two occasions.[2] Recently, in 2015, the Colombian Bank of the Republic chose her image to appear on the $10.000 peso bill in honor of all her merits. The new bills will be available by the end of 2016.[3]

On November 4, 2019, Google celebrated her 98th birthday with a Google Doodle.[4]

Her work
  • Familia y cultura en Colombia (1963)
  • Causas culturales de la mortalidad infantil
  • La medicina popular en Colombia
  • Razones de un arraigo (1961)
  • Organización social en la Guajira
  • La familia en Colombia: estudio antropológico (1962).
  • La medicina popular en Colombia: razones de su arraigo (1964).
  • Estructura, función y cambio de la familia en Colombia (1976).

References
  1. Dueñas, Guiomar. "Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda" (PDF). Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  2. Medellin Becerra, Jorge Alejandro; Fajardo Rivera, Diana. Gutierrez de Pineda, Virginia, Diccionario de Colombia (2005 edition). p. 474. ISBN 958-04-8561-5
  3. Redacción Economía (2016-09-25). "Así serán los nuevos billetes que circularán en Colombia a partir de 2016". ElEspectador. El Espectador. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  4. "Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda's 98th Birthday". Google. 4 November 2019.
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