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Monteiro, John Manuel 56, born in St. Paul, died March 26, 2013 in Campinas, Brazil. Survived by wife, Helena; sons, Alvaro and Thomas; mother-in-law, Aparecida Machado; brothers, Warren, Mark (Jane), Willy (Paula) and Charlie (Peggy); sisters, Marguerite (Bill) Cavett and Marilyn (Tim Allen) Monteiro; and nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by parents, Em and Mady Monteiro.
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Brent Hendrickson
I read this on the web page of the Campinas State University (Translated from Portuguese):
Less than four months after assuming the leadership of the Institute of Philosophy and Humanities (IFCH) Unicamp, Professor John Manuel Monteiro died on the night of Tuesday (26), in an accident at kilometer 92 of the Bandeirantes Highway, in the region of Campinas. John was born in St. Paul, USA, in 1956 and was a professor at Unicamp, in the field of Anthropology. Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of Chicago, taught at the University of North Carolina (USA) and UNESP. He was a CEBRAP researcher (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning). The funeral will be on Thursday (28), in the lobby of the new building of the library IFCH in the university city.
"It is a great loss to the University," lamented the president of Unicamp, Fernando Ferreira Costa. "Professor John Monteiro ran one of the most important institutes of humanities of Brazil and was an intellectual and a scientist of international standing," he added. The associate director of IFCH Jesus Joseph Ranieri, also regretted the incident. "It is an irreparable loss of a committed intellectual," he said.
Monteiro took over as director of IFCH on December 5 last year. Expert on indigenous history and author of Black Earth: Indian Origins and the Bandeirantes of São Paulo (1994), he was developing the research and Mamluks Mamluk: Alliance, Miscegenation, and Slavery in Transcontinental Perspective, 1550-1650, in his words, studying the so-called "colonial Indians."
Descanse em paz John