Between Class and Ethnicity: The Experience of Women in the Archaeology of the Central Andes
Presencial, 25 de abril de 2025.
Comunicacion de Carito Tavera-Medina, dentro del simposio «Behind the Scenes and on the Stage: The Women Who Shaped Archaeology» organizada en la SAA por el proyecto ArqueólogAs/Herstory
The countries in the Central Andean are diverse in their class, ethnic and gender composition and in the way these identities categories intersect in practice. In this paper, I analyze whether this social reality which partly derives from the centuries of Spanish colonization, influenced the practice of archaeology, and particularly the practice of women within the discipline. Looking at Chilean, Peruvian, and Bolivian case studies, I examine the positions that women occupied within the development of archaeology as a field of study. I focus on the way in which their class and ethnic backgrounds intersected with the gender and sexual identities and whether this conditioned their possibilities of accessing certain networks. Additionally, I explore how the feminist, indigenous and Afro-descendant social movements impacted the integration of women in each of these countries. This paper is presented in the framework of the Herstory project (ref. PID2023-149477NB-I00).
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