Frases de Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Thomas Hylland Eriksen es un antropólogo noruego. Actualmente es profesor de antropología social en la Universidad de Oslo, así como en el período 2015-2016 presidente de la Asociación Europea de Antropólogos Sociales.[1]​ Es un miembro de la Academia Noruega de Ciencias y Letras.[2]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 6. febrero 1962
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“Many social scientists, including anthropologists, have been interested in the power inherent in gender relations, often described through the idiom of female oppression. It can be argued that men usually tend to exert more power over women than vice versa. In most societies, men generally hold the most important political and religious positions, and very often men control the formal economy. In some societies, it may even be prescribed for women to cover their body and face when they appear in the public sphere, and, paradoxically, these practices sometimes become more common as their societies become more modern. On the other hand, women are often capable of exerting considerable informal power, not least in the domestic sphere. Anthropologists cannot state unequivocally that women are oppressed before they have investigated all aspects of their society, including how the women (and men) themselves perceive their situation. One cannot dismiss the possibility that certain women in western Asia (the Middle East) see the ‘liberated’ western woman as more oppressed – by professional career pressure, demands to look good and other expectations – than themselves.
When studying societies undergoing change, which perhaps most anthropologists do today, it is important to look at the value conflicts and tensions between different interest groups that are particularly central. Often these conflicts are expressed through gender relations.”

Fuente: What is Anthropology? (2nd ed., 2017), Ch. 2 : Key Concepts

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