Adelaida G. de Díaz Ungría

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Adelaida González Almejun de Díaz Ungría (born 1913 in Spain ; died December 2003 in Caracas ) was a Spanish - Venezuelan anthropologist .

Life

Little is known about the life of Adelaida G. de Díaz Ungría. Born in Spain, she fled the Franco dictatorship . The scientist, who obtained a doctorate, took a scientific approach to anthropology and is considered a pioneer of physical and biological anthropology in Venezuela. She worked for the Museo de Ciencias de Caracas and the Museo de Antropología e Historia de Maracay . She was also co-founder of the Escuela Venezolana de Antropología Biológica1 and head of the human biology department of the Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales of the Universidad Central de Venezuela .

Her research included the anthropometry of Venezuelan indigenous ethnic groups and racial studies with the help of population genetic studies. She no longer considered the earlier theses on American population groups as the total or main result of migration to be acceptable (1966). Her field research from the 1950s onwards led her a. a. in the north of Venezuela to the Irapa and Warao (Guarao) to the south in the border area with Brazil to the Ye'kuana , known in Venezuela as Maquiritari (Makiritare).

She published articles in the Boletín Indigenista Venezolano , Boletín del Museo de Ciencias Naturales , Boletín de la Comisión Nacional de Cooperación con la UNESCO , for the 36th Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Anales de antropología or América indígena . In 2004 a collection of her writings was published posthumously under the title Un encuentro con la antropología física venezolana: Adelaida de Díaz Ungría .

Fonts

  • Expedición a la zona de Isla Ratón. Indígenas guahibo y piaroa. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 1962.
  • El poblamiento indígena de Venezuela a través de la genética. Trabajo leído con motivo del X aniversario de la fundación de la Escuela de Sociología y Antropología. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 1963.
  • Estudio comparativo de las características serológicas y morfológicas correspondientes a las poblaciones Guajiro, Guahibo, Guarao y Yaruro. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 1966.
  • Antropología física de los indios irapa. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 1971.
  • La estructura biológica de los indígenas Yukpa ante el cambio cultural. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 1976.
  • Un encuentro con la antropología física venezolana: Adelaida de Díaz Ungría. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 2004. (Bibliography: pp. 328–333).

Smaller contributions (selection):

  • Estudio de distintas tribus en Venezuela. In: Boletín de la Comisión Nacional de Cooperación con la UNESCO , Caracas, Volume 1, 1965, No. 3, pp. 13–24.
  • The problem of the pigmies in America. In: Anales de anthropología , México, Volume 6, 1969, pp. 41-78.
  • Microevolución en las poblaciones indígenas yupa. In: América indígena , México, Volume 34, 1974, pp. 113-134.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anthropological Institutions, 1965. In: Current Anthropology , Volume 6, 1965, No. 5, p. 518.
  2. ^ Estudios de Antropologia Biologica. UNAM, México, Volume 5, 1995, ISBN 968-36-3313-7 , p. 17.
  3. ^ Letter in Some Problems in the Physical Anthropological Study of the Peopling of America. In: Current Anthropology , Volume 8, 1967, No. 4, p. 304. ( JSTOR 2740153 ). Retrieved February 22, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Díaz Ungría, Adelaida G. de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Díaz Ungría, Adelaida González Almejun de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish-Venezuelan anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Spain
DATE OF DEATH December 2003
Place of death Caracas