Memory

Presence in IUAES/ WAU Events:

  • 2018 – 18th IUAES/ WAU Congress in Florianópolis, Brazil : Organization of the Violet Circuit of activities on women, sexuality and gender, with roud tables and panels – a calling for the organization of a Global Feminist Anthropology´s Network

  • 2019 – IUAES Inter Congress in Poznan, Poland: Organization of Panel “Women in the History of Anthropology” and round table on “Gender Inequalities”.

  • 2021 – IUAES Congress in Yucatan México: Virtual Conference untitled “Women in the History of Anthropology” Panel and Round Table Feminist Anthropology

  • 2023 – 19th IUAES / WAU Congress in Deli, India , at the 19th edition of the held in India, we had the registration of 8 panels entirely dedicated to the theme of gender and sexuality,(P023/ P027/ P034/ P039/ P064/ P087/ PT148/ PT161)  apart from participations in round tables and virtual panels.

July 2018 – Post-Event to the IUAES World Congress “What About Women in the History of Anthropology?”

Anthropology suffered in the 1960s an important shift. The approaches that were positioned as neutral or distant from the object studied, as well as those colonialist positions, came to live with perspectives engaged in which there was adhesion of the researcher with the struggles for justice and social transformation involving the movements studied, particularly, popular and subalternized groups. This turnaround was made possible, to a great extent, by the contribution of women to the discipline that, by theorizing subjectivity, agency and power constructed the conditions of this displacement.

Women are present throughout the history of anthropology, despite the more widespread versions that make them invisible and that assume their contributions as less relevant. Nowadays, in spite of the various initiatives of Feminist Anthropology in refocusing anthropological thinking from the lens of gender and sexuality, the discipline still shapes itself as an androcentric dimension of reality. The anthropological canon recognizes few women and undergraduate and postgraduate courses have a predominantly male bibliography. Rarely, in a course of anthropological theory, there is a woman other than Margaret Mead or Ruth Benedict.

Currently, in world anthropology, women are the majority in associations. Many are presidents, such as the American Anthropological Association (AAA) presided by Alisse Waterston, the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) presided by Faye Harrison and the Brazilian Anthropological Association (ABA) presided by Lia Zanotta Machado. Even so, when speaking of “anthropological theory”, there is not enough recognition of the production of women. Based on this, we ask: what about women in the history of anthropology?

The participation of women in anthropology is an invisible genealogy, to use a term from Regna Darnell. Anthropology, which since its emergence as an area of knowledge invests in relations of proximity between the researcher and his/her interlocutors, already signaled the questioning of the neutrality of science, dictated from categories such as “positionality”, brought to Brazil by the feminist anthropologist Cecília Sardenberg. According to Marylin Strathern, anthropology was “colonized” by the feminist conceptual field in the 1970s, generating a specialty concerned with “women” and “gender”, called Feminist Anthropology. However, the feminist conceptual field and its later specialty were not able to produce displacements in the anthropological discipline as a whole. For Guita Debert, feminist anthropology becomes a relevant subfield by requiring the researcher to self-declare her/himself as a feminist. Based on this, the event will allow the construction of a dense reflection on the impacts of feminism on the history of anthropology, as well as the recognition and appreciation of the contributions of women, indigenous, trans *, black and other subalternized groups in the history of this discipline. This will directly impact on the field’s theoretical framework, expanding the participation of more symmetrical and decolonial reflections in the world anthropological canon, since it envisages the participation of the main specialists in the theme of Asia (with an emphasis in the South), North America, Central America, Africa, and Brazil.

More information at: http://www.womeninanthropology.ufba.br

 

Chair and Co-Chair (2019-2024)

Felipe Bruno Martins Fernandes – Federal University of Bahia (Brazil)

Susana Rostagnol – Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

Commission Founders (2017)

Nasim Basiri – Oregon State University (US)

Felipe Bruno Martins Fernandes – Federal University of Bahia (Brazil)

Miriam Pillar Grossi – Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil)

Members

Form Submitted in Ottawa (2019), first supporters,

Form Submitted in Florianópolis (2018), second supporters (by order of signature in form)

  1. Miriam Pillar Grossi (UFBA/Brazil)
  2. Akitomo Shingae (Osaka University/Japan)
  3. Cornélia Eckert (UFRGS/Brazil)
  4. Lia Zanotta Machado (UNB/Brazil)
  5. Ednalva Maciel Neves (UFPB/Brazil)
  6. Kabengele Munanga (USP/Brazil)
  7. Clementina Furtado (UNI-CV/Cabo Verde)
  8. Carmelita Silva (UNI-CV/Cabo Verde)
  9. Elisete Schwade (UFRN/Brazil)
  10. Marion Quadros (UFPE/Brazil)
  11. Ann Kingsolver (University of Kentucky/USA)
  12. Subhadra Channa (University of Delhi/Índia)
  13. Martha Patrícia Castañeda (UNAM/México)
  14. Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (UAM/México)
  15. Heloisa Buarque de Almeida (USP/Brazil)
  16. Faye Harrisson (UIUC/EUA)
  17. Angela Figueiredo (UFRB/Brazil)
  18. J. Ignácio Pichardo (UC/Madrid)
  19. Tânia Welter (UFSC/Brazil)
  20. Fátima Weiss (UFAM/Brazil)
  21. Caterina Rea (UNILAB/Brazil)

Members in 2018 – Florianópolis

  1. Akitomo Shingae (Osaka University/Japan)
  2. Angela Figueiredo (UFRB/Brazil)
  3. Candice Vidal e Souza (PUC-Minas)
  4. Caterina Rea (UNILAB/Brazil)
  5. Carmelita Silva (UNI-CV/Cabo Verde)
  6. Cecilia Sardemberg (UFBA/Brazil)
  7. Clementina Furtado (UNI-CV/Cabo Verde)
  8. Elisete Schwade (UFRN/Brazil)
  9. Fátima Weiss (UFAM/Brazil)
  10. Felipe Bruno Martins Fernandes (UFBA/Brazil/ UQAM/Canadá)
  11. Heloisa Buarque de Almeida (USP/Brazil)
  12. José Ignácio Pichardo (UC/Spain)
  13. Lia Zanotta Machado (UNB/Brazil)
  14. Mara Viveros (UN/Colombia)
  15. Martha Patricia Castañeda (UNAM/Mexico)
  16. Mary Goldsmith (UAM/México)
  17. Marion Quadros (UFPE/Brazil)
  18. Mariza Ruiz (UNACH/México)
  19. Melissa Stein (South Africa)
  20. Miriam Pillar Grossi (UFBA/Brazil)
  21. Monica Tarducci (UBA/Argentina)
  22. Nassim Bassiri (Oregon University/USA)
  23. Suzana Rostagnol (UDELAR/Uruguai)
  24. Tânia Welter (UFSC/Brazil)
  25. Vinicius Kauê Ferreira (EHESS/France)

Members who joined in 2019 in IUAES Intercongress in Poznan:

  1. Anika Keinz (Universität Viadrina/Germany)
  2. Anabella Barragan Solis (INHA/Mexico)
  3. Fernanda Azeredo de Moraes (EHESS/France)
  4. Maria Guadalupe Hucuaz Elias (UAM/Mexico)
  5. Grazika Kubica-Heller (University of Krakow/Poland)
  6. Jorge Venegas (Universidad Autonoma de Quetaaro/México)
  7. Marek Sancho Hohne (European University Vradrina/Germany)
  8. Monica Baer (University of Wroclaw/Poland)
  9. Sandra Fernandez (University of Saint Andrews/UK)
  10. Siobhan Mc Guirh (Goldsmith College/UK)
  11. Yoko Ikari (Japan)

 Members who joined in 2021

  1. Mercedes Oyhantcabal

 Members who joined in 2023

  1. Neisenuo Apon Rengma
  2. Asuno Tase
  3. Debjani Bhattacharyya
  4. Douglas Santos da Silva
  5. Grit Kirstin Koeltzch – Argentina
  6. Heather O’Leary – USA
  7. Katarzyna Kosmala – UK
  8. Maria Soledad Cutuli – Argentina
  9. Nilika Mehrotra – India
  10. Nimisha John – India
  11. Ropfuvino Krose
  12. Saptarshi Bairagi – India
  13. Savita Borai – India
  14. Rezwana Karim Snigdha
  15. Sumit saurabh srivastava India
  16. Vanja Petrovic

 

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