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WORLD ANTHROPOLOGICAL UNION

CONGRESS 2024​

Paper

Women and feminists in Anthropology in Chiapas, Central American and the Caribbean

presenters

    Marisa Ruiz Trejo

    Nationality: Mexico

    Residence: Mexico

    Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas

    Presence:Online

This paper constitutes an effort to recover different traditions of feminist anthropologies that have not been sufficiently represented in academic literature, strongly dominated by the theoretical production of the United States and Europe. This paper brings together a series of works on the heterogeneous and multiple contributions of women and feminists in anthropology in Chiapas, Central America, and the Caribbean, from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. At the beginning of the 20th century, thanks to various feminist struggles in my region of origin, women joined a predominantly male scientific space and crossed different barriers and obstacles. In the first decades of the 20th century, I identified the work of European, American, and Mestizo women from the wealthy and middle classes. Gradually and more recently, I observed that Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and sexual dissident women have joined the discipline, giving a new twist to social scientific productions and transforming some of the most unquestionable scientific postulates on the objectification of what is knowable with respect to those who know, that is, the scientists in front of the “objects of their research”.

Keywords:

feminist anthropology, women in anthropology, intersectionality