WRITING BY WOMEN IN ANTHROPOLOGY:

FROM CLASSIC TO INDIGENOUS ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze the production of anthropological knowledge and how the women who produce it have modified it. To this end, I present the trajectory of six anthropologists who occupied different spaces of power and subordination, and who contributed with writings and methodologies to Anthropology. I come from classic authors, Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict. Then, I dialogue with the creative writing process of Zora Neale Hurston and Ruth Landes, women who did not gain status in the anthropological canon. Finally, I present the production of two indigenous anthropologists, Tayse Campos da Silva and Sandra Benites, who are rethinking their communities and contributing to other epistemologies. I conclude by demonstrating the importance of incorporating methods and references from indigenous, black and peripheral people, to transform the university and Anthropology.

KEYWORDS: Anthropology. Writing. Indigenous Women. Classical Theory.

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