Begoña Aretxaga (San Sebastián, Spain, February 24, 1960 - Austin Texas, December 28, 2002) was a Basque anthropologist known for her work on

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and Basque country. She graduated at Philosophy and Phychology from the

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and got her PhD in anthropology on

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with a gender perspective at

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. She lectured in Princeton,

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, and near the end of her life she taught at the

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. She received the MacArthur Award in recognition of her work in 2001 one year before she died of lung cancer at 42.

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Basque women People from San Sebastián University of the Basque Country alumni Princeton University alumni Harvard University faculty University of Texas at Austin faculty Spanish anthropologists Spanish women anthropologists 1960 births 2002 deaths 20th-century anthropologists {{Spain-scientist-stub