5. My favorite anthropologist

 

Hello everyone!!! Welcome back to my 5th, and final, blog <3

 

Today I am going to share with you some information about one of my favorite anthropologists..... I am talking about the great Sonia Montecino! (If you don't know her, it doesn't matter, the idea is that you know a little more about her and hopefully you will be interested enough to read some of her work).

Sonia Montecino is one of the best writers and researchers that our university has, being recognized nationally for her work by winning the national prize for humanities and social sciences in 2013.

She has a degree in anthropology from the University of Chile, and also completed a doctorate at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. She is currently a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, her area of specialization being Gender Studies (of which she is one of the founders).

And it is on gender where she has focused the most, since through her works she studies and discusses gender and ethnic identities, through a mixture of anthropology and literature. In her books she focuses on the perspectives of minorities that have been left aside and forgotten gradually, such as the indigenous women of our country, who are a fundamental part of a large part of her narrative and essayistic works.

Her most important work, which was my first reading, is her essay entitled "Madres y Huachos: alegorías de la identidad chilena" (Mothers and Huachos: allegories of Chilean identity), published in 1991. In this work you can clearly see what she seeks and realizes as a professional, since in this text she addresses the indigenous world and the formation of identities, both women and men, in the context of miscegenation in Chile, being an important point, how this mestizo identity has been denied in our country.

For me it is really important to have known an author like her, since she deals with topics that many times aren't taken as important by other authors. She writes about women, and especially about Mapuche women who live in rural areas and who have been left aside in the conformation of written and known history, which is what caught my attention and what I like the most about her.

Here a picture of the great and awesome queen

And that is all... I hope you now want to read some of Sonia Montecino's work!

Goodbye to all <3

P.S. I share birthday with Sonia Montecinooo!!!!