Gender Studies and feminism have had an important impact in world archaeology and social sciences in general, but this has not been reflected in Chilean archaeological research or in the discipline’s historiography. Based on the above, in this work we present the results of six in-depth interviews with five women and one man, who were archaeology students during the institutionalization stage of the discipline in the University of Chile (decade of 1960). Based on the interviews we seek to give visibility to the participation of women in the history of the discipline, to think about the reasons for the absence of these approaches and to discuss it from a current perspective. The results show the absence of an idea of gender violence in the interviewees, a high personal and institutional impact from the 1973 coup d'état and the subsequent dictatorship and a critical vision about the current development of the discipline.
Keywords:
archaeology, historiography, gender violence, feminism, university
Brinck, A., Dávila, C., Fuenzalida, N., & Moya, F. (2021). Experiences of women in archaeology and the University of Chile (1960-1980): lessons and present challenges. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (43), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2021.64431
