Abstract
As homage to Francoise Heritier’s career, this article reviews –in a necessarily brief way– her professional trajectory, and ethnographic and anthropological contributions. We stress the thematic, theoretical and epistemic continuities of her work with those of Levi-Strauss, while we highlight the originality of her research and contribution to the anthropology of the body. Additionally, we underscore author’s compromise with the position of the woman in the society as well as her active collaboration in a scholarly work that could result in achieving a greater equality among genders.
Highlights
As homage to Françoise Héritier’s career, this article reviews –in a necessarily brief way– her professional trajectory, and ethnographic and anthropological contributions
while we highlight the originality of her research and contribution to the anthropology
well as her active collaboration in a scholarly work that could result in achieving a greater equality among genders
Summary
Resulta difícil rendir cuenta sucintamente de las dimensiones que singularizan la obra de Françoise Héritier (1933-2017). Su manera de enfrentarse a su labor de científica social muestra más bien un caminar en el que, una vez superado el período inicial e iniciático de trabajo de campo en Burkina Faso, destaca una interpelación dialéctica y perseverante entre distintos saberes y niveles de experiencia, reflexión e implicación, prolongada a lo largo de toda su carrera profesional. Tras una breve evocación de la importancia de la etnografía, destacaré las principales dimensiones de su obra que implican una clara continuidad con lo iniciado por Lévi-Strauss –análisis del parentesco, enfoque estructuralista y búsqueda de universales, énfasis en los modelos de pensamiento– seguidos de los aspectos que la diferencian en mayor o menor medida de sus planteamientos –importancia material y simbólica del cuerpo, estudio de la dominación masculina, defensa de los derechos de las mujeres, compromiso social–
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