An expert in anthropology: Anne Chapman

Anne Chapman was a franco-american anthropologist who was born in 1922 in Los Angeles, California. She cursed universities studies on Mexico and on E.E.U.U, specializing in the amerindian study.The latter is reflected in her numerous articles, documentaries, photographs and audio discs.

Her work as well as his studies, was mainly focused in indigenous people, working on Mesoamerica and on Tierra Del Fuego, being this last territorial area the one that made her better known at least in the anthropological circle. Her work on Tierra Del Fuego was related with Selknam´s ethnic group and with Yaganes to a lesser extent, she rescued for posterity some vocabulary of yaganes and some parts of culture of Selknam people. I admire her because she did a great and thorough work with these people of the end of the world, also because she was an anthropologist that broke the vertical relationship between observer and observed that is commonly found in etnographies, and then she built a horizontal relationship with these amerindian people. In summary Anne Chapman was a great anthropologist.