Accepted Panels

Anthropology suffered in the 1960s an important shift. The approaches that were positioned as neutral or distant from the object studied, as well as those colonialist positions, came to live with engaged perspectives in which there was adhesion of the researcher with the struggles for justice and social transformation involving the movements studied. This turnaround was made possible, to a great extent, by the contribution of women to the discipline that, by theorizing subjectivity, agency and power constructed the conditions of this displacement. Women are present throughout the history of anthropology, despite the more widespread versions that make them invisible and that assume their contributions as less relevant. Nowadays, in spite of the various initiatives of Feminist Anthropology in refocusing anthropological thinking from the lens of gender and sexuality, the discipline still shapes itself as an androcentric dimension of reality. The anthropological canon recognizes few women and undergraduate and postgraduate courses have a predominantly male bibliography. Currently, in world anthropologies, women are the majority in associations. Even so, when speaking of “anthropological theory”, there is not enough recognition of the production of women. The open panel will allow the construction of a reflection on the impacts of feminism on the history of anthropology, as well as the recognition and appreciation of the contributions of women, indigenous, queer, trans, black, asian and other subalternized groups. We desire to impact on the field's theoretical framework, expanding the participation of more symmetrical and decolonial reflections in the world anthropological canon.