Abstract

ECHEVERRI, MARCELA. PIONEER ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND LIBERAL NATIONALISM IN COLOMBIA, 1941-1949. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2007, vol.43, pp.61-90. ISSN 0486-6525.

DURING THE 1930S AND 1940S THE LIBERAL PROJECT OF THE STATE GAVE WAY TO IMPORTANT INNOVATIONS in education as a means of national integration, which also enabled feminine Access to the professional world. Four women, who studied and worked in the newly created Instituto Etnológico Nacional (1941), were protagonists of the professionalization of anthropology in the XXth century. Their research was fundamental to the development of a social dimension in the nationalist discourse as it provided important arguments, supported by scientific evidence, about the nation's pre-history and culture. This article discusses the main contributions of Alicia Dussán de Reichel, Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda, Edith Jiménez de Muñoz and Blanca Ochoa de Molina in relation to the Instituto Etnologico´s objectives as well as for the construction of a modern nationhood based on the indigenous legacy.

Keywords : Liberalism; women; Colombian anthropology; nationalism; ethnology; research; publications.

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