Mari Luz Esteban

Mari Luz Esteban Galarza (born 1 November 1959 Pedrosa de Valdeporres) is a Basque anthropologist. She earned her degree in medicine and surgery from the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU) in 1983 and in 1993 she received her doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of Barcelona.

Life She graduated in medicine, and worked in Biscay (Basauri and Bilbao) as a family planning physician, from 1984 to 1996.

After completing her doctorate, she taught Social Anthropology, initially at the University of León, from 1994 to 1996, then at the Public University of Navarra from 1996 to 1998. Since 1998, she has been a professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

She was a member of the Assembly of Women of Bizkaia and the Platform for a Basque Public System of Care for Dependency. Today she is part of the Women's Group of Basauri (Bizkaia) to which she has belonged since her university years and of Marienea Elkartea (Women's House of Basauri).

Her research focuses on the field of Anthropology of Medicine, Feminist Anthropology and the Anthropology of the Body and Emotions.

She has also written a book of poetry: Amaren heriotzak libreago egin ninduen, translated into Catalan: La mort de la meva mare em va fer lés lliure and into Spanish: La muerte de mi madre me hizo me más libre.

Also an essay on the transformations in politics, in general, and in feminist politics, in particular, based on her experience in the Basque region: Feminismoa eta politikaren eraldaketak.

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