A tour of my life

  Hi, I’m going to talk about anthropologist Sonia Montecino who I admire. She was born on November twelve, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, in Chile and is currently sixty-six years old, studying anthropology at the University of Chile and years later did a doctorate at the Leiden in Holland. She has been awarded in 2005, Altazor Prize, for the book "Mitos de Chile. Diccionario de Seres, Magias y Encantos". In 2004, she was awarded by the University of Chile, as Women Generation Century XXI. And in 1992, she was honored by the Chilean Academic of the Language, when she awarded an award for the book “Madres y Huachos, Alegorías del Mestizaje Chileno”. She won the national prize for humanities and social sciences in Chile in two thousand and thirteen. She was one of the first women to enter the gender perspective in Chile and developed a proposal to understand the Latin American and Chilean identity, based on the construction of the feminine and masculine in our...

The Anthropology is a discipline that can study all areas of human life, as they relate to each other and can see that behavior both in the present and in the past, to be able how relationships can act or how people see themselves. Therefore, their study is relevant in almost all areas of social life. My major in all its disciplines should seek a participatory character, social intervention, and transformation. Therefore, the work of the anthropologist implies a reflection from the researcher himself about what he studies and its link with that research. I would contribute from anthropology to the eradication of obstetric violence, from a gender perspective, understanding that it is a symbolic violence against women and a violation of human rights. This violence that occurs mainly in the delivery rooms is usually ignored. By identifying the key points of how such violence occurs, public policies can be implemented to prevent it from continuing to reproduce.