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Colombian Anthropologist

Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda 
     (1921/11/04 - 1999/09/02)

She was born on November 4 to 1921 in Socorro, Santander, Colombia

She studied baccalaureate at the National Pedagogical Institute of Bogotá, between 1935 and 1940, in the Escuela Normal Superior between 1940 and 1944, and in the National Technological Institute, here she received the degree of anthropologist in 1944. Thanks to a grant from the Foundation Guggenheim, entered the University of California, Berkeley, where she obtained a master's degree in Social and Medical Anthropology (1953-1954). In 1962, at the National Pedagogical University, she received her doctorate in Social and Economic Sciences.