Maria da Piedade de Jesus

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Maria da Piedade de Jesus (* 1963 in Moçâmedes ) is an Angolan African archaeologist and anthropologist . She has been Angola's Minister of Culture since June 2019 .

Life

She first attended primary school in the Município Chongorói in the province of Benguela and in the city of Benguela , where she also finished secondary school. At the age of 12 she became a member of the youth organization OPA of the MPLA in Chongorói . Since 1982 she was employed as a research assistant at the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia there. She obtained her first degree in history from the Universidade Agostinho Neto in Benguela, her master’s degree (2004) and the Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) (2005) in African archeology from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne , where she studied paleoanthropology in 2010 received his doctorate.

From 2006–2013 she was a lecturer in archeology at the Universidade Katyavala Bwila (formerly Universidade Agostinho Neto) in Benguela, 2015–2017 lecturer and head of the department of archeology and anthropology at the Universidade Agostinho Neto in Luanda . As coordinator, she put the Mbanza Kongo project on the UNESCO World Heritage List on July 8, 2017 . In the same function, she is also trying to bring the prehistoric rock art of Chitundo-Hulo onto this list.

Political career

Since 2005 she has been a member of the Angolan women's organization ( Organização da Mulher Angolana ). In 2013 Maria da Piedade de Jesus was appointed General Director of the Institute for National Heritage ( Instituto Nacional do Património Cultural ), in the same year she was also head of the school administration in the city center of Benguela, 2014-2015 in Coqueiro and 2016-2018 in Cacuaco . In June 2019, she was appointed Minister of Culture by President João Lourenço , succeeding Carolina Cerqueira ; before that, she was State Secretary in this ministry.

Publications

  • Manuel Gutierrez, Claude Guérin, Maria Piedade de Jesus, Maria Léna: Exploitation d'un grand cétacé au Paléolithique Inferieur: Le site de Dungo V à Baia-Farta (Benguela-Angola) . In: Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Series IIA Sciences de la terre et des planétes 332, 2001, pp. 357-362.
  • Manuel Gutierrez, Claudine Karlin, Claude Guérin, Jérémie Vosges (França), Maria Léna: Le chantier-Ecole de fouilles archéologiques de Baia-Farta (Benguela-Angola) . In: Africa: Archeologie & Art 2, 2002–2003, pp. 197–108.
  • Maria Piedade de Jesus: Recherche sur le Paléolithique Inferieur en Angola: Resumo do trabalho de Defesa do primeiro ano de mestrado em arqueologia Africana . In: Africa: Archeologie & Art 3, 2004–2005
  • Maria Piedade de Jesus: Essai d'étude traceologique d'un corpus lithique Acheuléen du Sun d'Angola. Resumo do trabalho d defesa dos DEA (Estudos Aprofundados) em Arqueologia Africana . In: Africa: Archeology & Art 4, 2006
  • Manuel Gutierrez, Claude Guérin, Claudine Karlin, Maria da Piedade de Jesus, ML Benjamin, A.-E. Lebartard, DL Bourlés; R. Brauch; L. Leanni: Research archéologique à Dungo (Angola). A site de Charognage de Baleine de plus d'un milllion d'années . In: Africa: Archeologie & Art 6, 2010, pp. 25–47.
  • Maria da Piedade de Jesus: Recherche sur le Paléolithique Inferieur de la Bande Côtiére d'Angola. Etude comparative tecno-typologique et tracéologique du matériel lithique des sites de Dungo IV, Dungo V, Dungo XII . In: Africa: Archeologie & Art 6, 2010, pp. 103-105 (summary of the dissertation, digitized version ).
  • Maria da Piedade de Jesus: Pesquisas arqueológicas em Pré-História. Memória da cultura da Região Leste de Angola . Catalogo do museu do Dundo, Ministério da Cultura, 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carolina Cerqueira e Maria da Piedade de Jesus têm novos cargos no Executivo jornaldeangola.sapo.ao , June 21, 2019, accessed on October 30, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Jesus, Maria da Piedade de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piedade de Jesus, Mary there
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Angolan African archaeologist and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Moçâmedes