It is with extreme regret that the Rectory of Unicamp announces the death of the teachers Edgar Salvadori de Decca and Mariza Corrêa, both from the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH) at Unicamp.
One of the most prominent intellectuals in the country, De Decca was a professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences at Unicamp, pro-rector of undergraduate studies and vice-rector of the University. The burial took place on Tuesday, December 27th, at the Parque Flamboyant cemetery, in Campinas.
Mariza Corrêa was director of IFCH and professor at the Department of Anthropology. In the last years of her life, she worked with Pagu / Gender Studies Center. Her death occurred on Tuesday, December 27th and her body was cremated the following day (28th), in Campinas (SP).
Edgar De Decca: historiography and Brazilian identity
Professor De Decca worked mainly in the areas of historiography, modern and contemporary history and history of the Brazilian Republic. His intellectual trajectory was marked by bets that altered the foundations of Brazilian historiography and allowed history to be told in another way, including through the voices of the defeated. Your book 1930 - The Silence of the Vanquished, published in 1981, by the publisher Brasiliense, for example, De Decca privileges the perspective of the union movement when analyzing files and facts that marked the Revolution of 30, disregarding the version disseminated by the elites.
In October 2003, he took up a Unicamp chair at the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, in Lisbon, with the mission of discussing Brazilian identity in the territory that forged it. "I have a special interest in the way this story was told and constructed to bring us closer to and distance us from this father that we sometimes idealize, sometimes reject," said De Decca in an interview with Jornal da Unicamp at the time (read full interview). The course covered the period between Independence and the works of the intellectuals who emerged in the 30s and highlighted an unpublished master's thesis by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, discovered by him while mining the collection entrusted to Unicamp by the intellectual's family. From São Paulo. According to De Decca, the thesis deepened, 20 years later, what had been outlined in Raízes do Brasil, a classic that brought to light the formative elements of our society.
Mariza Corrêa: anthropology and feminism
Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH) at Unicamp for thirty years, Mariza Corrêa made a mark on Brazilian anthropology and feminism. Her studies were pioneers in areas such as violence, family, gender, racial relations, intersectionalities and intersex. Mariza was one of the founders of the Pagu Gender Studies Center, created in 1993 based on the work of a study group of professors and postgraduate students at IFCH (look Unicamp 50 years special), and played a fundamental role in the creation and solidification of Cadernos Pagu and the Gender and Feminisms Collection of Editora da Unicamp.
Among his main research we can highlight his studies on homicides and attempted homicides committed in Campinas between 1952 and 1972, later published under the title Death in the family — Legal representations of sexual roles (Graal, 1983), which continues to be current and inspiring research on violence against women.
In September 2004, Mariza coordinated an international meeting organized at Unicamp to discuss the practice of "honor crimes" in Latin America and the Middle East. "If, in one case, it is about justifying the husband's wounded pride and, in the other, about reconstituting the relationships of the woman's family of origin, why bring together Latin American and Middle Eastern researchers to discuss the so-called crimes of honor? Precisely to demystify them. And, in the same movement, demystify the idea that the notion of honor would have the blessing of Muslim religions as a way of controlling female sexuality, which Islamic leaders vehemently deny", said the professor in an interview with Jornal da Unicamp at the time (read the full report).
In a tribute to Mariza Corrêa published on the Pagu website, professor Adriana Piscitelli expressed: “her departure is an immense loss, but the legacy she left us is also immense”.
