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Raul Iturra, meu antigo professor e figura incontornável no processo de desenvolvimento da Antropologia  em Portugal, aqui deixou na caixa de comentários o seu penhorado testemunho sobre Jill Dias. Está assim:

I dare say to have been a personal friend of Rosemary and husband Alberto, or Jill Dias as every one says. Professor Jill Dias not only knew how to teach aswell as how to write, but knew very well to be a discrete friend, a good colleague with a beutiful mind, as clear as all the books she wrotte for us, a large masterpiece which will keep Prof. Jill Dias alive. She is now alonside her Mother and her Husband, with sparkling blue eyes, taking care of us. Both Jill and Alberto helped me to organize our Department of Anthropology at ISCTE. We have not lost a friend, we have won an angel on earth flying into Eternity. An Eternity which is already in our libraries and in the mind of hundreds of Anthropologists in Portugal and in the UK.

I have already said that we have not lost a friend, we have won a dear friend who is going to be with us for all eternity on her clever books, her clear explanations to the minds of several new Anthropologists in Portugal and the UK. She has already entered Eternity through her discretion, always smiling face and her devotion to our science. As former President of the Portuguese Association of Anthropologists - APA - which she supported very much and as founder of the Department of Social Anthropology at ISCTE, I feel to need to say that there have not been Department at ISCTE, had it not her foundation be supported by the former Under Secretary of Education in 1983, Prof. Alberto Romão Dias and her wife Rosemary (Jill) Dias. An innate worker, she lives now in the inmensity of her research, materialized in very many books as in our minds and souls. A Viva Jill Dias is convenient to express over here.