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About María Cátedra
- María Cátedra, also known as María Cátedra Tomás, (b.
- 4 March 1947) is a Spanish anthropologist.
- She was born in the Spanish city of Lerida and completed her undergraduate degree from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1971.
- She received a doctorate from the same university in 1976, and a second doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.
- She later became a professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Complutense.
- Her field research took place in Spain and Portugal, in the towns of Asturias, Ávila, and Evora.
- Cátedra's early work in Asturias in the 1970s examined perceptions of death, suicide, and the afterlife in the community, and made use of techniques from symbolic anthropology.
- This project would have an influence on later studies of death and suicide in the region.
- Cátedra later moved to working in Ávila, where she analyzed the political aspects of the saints of the town.
- For this project, she used both fieldwork and analysis of documents from archive sources.
- A 2004 biographical dictionary of anthropologists described Cátedra as a "pioneer of urban anthropology in Spain".
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