Heloísa Alberto Torres

[2] Heloísa Alberto Torres was born on 17 September 1895 in Rio de Janeiro.

Edgar Roquette-Pinto(1884 – 1954), who was an assistant professor of anthropology at the National Museum of Brazil and a friend of Alberto Torres, brought Heloísa as an intern to the Anthropology section of the Museum.

[5] In the beginning of her career, she had “no formal training in anthropology”,[1] but she gradually developed her interest on it.

[1][6] She used her “wide network of relations in both politics and Brazilian public administration” to generate adequate resources for training anthropologists to study the indigenous peoples in Brazil.

[7] While she was the director, she signed an agreement with Columbia University to advance ethnological studies in Brazil.