Begoña Aretxaga

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Begoña Aretxaga Santos (born February 24, 1960 in San Sebastián ; died December 28, 2002 in Austin , Texas ) was a Basque -US anthropologist .

Life

Begoña Aretxaga graduated from the University of the Basque Country ( Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea ) with a degree in philosophy and psychology in 1983 and received her PhD in anthropology from Princeton University in 1992. Her doctoral thesis was on nationalism and gender in Ireland. From 1992 to 1993 she taught at Princeton University. She moved to Harvard University , where she was assistant professor of anthropology from 1993 to 1997 and of social sciences from 1997 to 1999 . From 1999 she was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin .

Her research topics included nationalism , political violence , gender studies and sexuality , often related to the political situation in the Basque Country. Her early work Los Funerales en el Nacionalismo Radical Vasco (1989) is considered groundbreaking, she expanded it to achieve a Ph.D. 1992. She regards her second work on Ireland ( Shattering Silence , 1997) as a feminist ethnography . She served on the advisory board of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno , which posthumously published a collection of her essays in 2005.

Fonts

  • as co-author: Mujer Vasca. Imagen y Realidad. Barcelona, ​​1985.
  • Los Funerales en el Nacionalismo Radical Vasco. Ensayo antropológico. Baroja, San Sebastián 1989.
  • A topography of dignity. Gendered politics and transformative symbols in Northern Ireland. Princeton University 1992.
  • Shattering Silence. Women, Nationalism and Political Subjetivity in Northern Ireland. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1997, ISBN 0-691-03755-8 .
  • with Joseba Zulaika: Enemigos, no hay enemigo. (Poleḿicas, imposturas, confesiones post- ETA ). Erein, Donostia 1999, ISBN 84-7568-835-7 .
  • Empire and terror. Nationalism / postnationalism in the new millennium. Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno 2004, ISBN 1-877802-48-4 .
  • States of terror. Begoña Aretxaga's essays. Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, 2005, ISBN 1-877802-57-3 .

Contributions by Aretxaga have appeared in the journals Ethos of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Cultural Survival , Social Análisis , Arenal. Revista de Historia de las Mujeres , Annual review of anthropology or the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies .

So far none of her works have been translated into German.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Begoña Aretxaga Santos . In: Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia . Retrieved February 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ Review: Elizabeth A. Davis: Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland by Begoña Aretxaga. In: Cambridge Journal of Anthropology , Volume 20, 1998, pp. 159-161 ( JSTOR 23820319 ). Retrieved February 14, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Aretxaga, Begoña
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aretxaga Santos, Begoña (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Basque-American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH San Sebastian
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2002
Place of death Austin , Texas