Third Blog: A person in your field that you admire

Sonia Montecino is a chilean writer and anthropologist. Her work is characterized by the intersection of literature and anthropology. She is one of the founders of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chile and a National Prize for Humanities and Sciences. Her works haunt ethnic studies and gender perspectives from a feminist perspective. Among these are "Mothers and Huachos", "Chilean Women: Fragments of a story" and "Myths of Chile: Encyclopedia of beings, appearances and charms".

I think her work is extremely interesting and wonderful. She has been very inspiring when it comes to conducting essays around anthropological themes. I also find gender perspective work very important, because it deconstruct the machismo that has always been instilled in us. As for ethnic studies, I consider that these play a role in knowing another version of the colonizing history because it omits too much information about our roots. I've learned too much from her and I really love her job.