A person I admire is...

Anne Chapman (1922-2010)

She was an anthropologist born in the United States of America but later would get the double nationality in France. She devotes many years to live with the few survivors of the Selk'nam and Yahgan people of Tierra del Fuego, in the south of Chile, where the ethnocide perpretrated by the Chilean State and the process of colonization by forgeins ranchers pay for every native dead. Specially the relationship that Anne had with Lola Kiepja, the last shaman (xo'on) Selk'nam, Lola remember the traditions, sungs and the social structure of the society, and she gives it to Anne in many years of live together.

Anne Champan was interested in genre topics about the indigenous culture, so she cares by the situation of woman in that kind of society, in the hunter-gatherer peoples. The Woman's rol in the politic, social and economic system, in the reproduction of society and relationships. And Chapman described the genres opposition in Selk'nam tribus, by the "Myth of Hain", in which at the beginning of times, the men take care of family, alimentation and clothes, while the womans work in the productive labours, the hunt and defense of clan. To keep this kind of social structure of the division of work, the womans paint as spirits and scare the mens. But someday, a woman was caught disguising, and the men kill every woman except the childend, and from that day forward, the men scare the woman and have privilegiouns in the productive activities, while the woman was relegated to the domestic and family care.

I really admire her because she could collect a lot of information without a folclorizing perspective, so she respect the history of Lola, and that make this kind of knowledge more horizontal, and less scientistic. A way of do Anthropology from the intimacy and friendship.
Great part of her work was published in Internet, the book "El Fin de Un Mundo: Los Selk'nam de Tierra del Fuego", and in Youtube, you can find an recorded album about the chants of Lola Kiepja, by Anne Chapman, they're awesome and beautiful.