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

She graduated at Philosophy and Phychology from the University of the Basque Country and got her PhD about Irish Nationalism with a gender perspective at Princeton University. She lectured in Princeton, Harvard University, and near the end of her life she taught at the University of Texas at Austin. She will receive the MacArthur Award in recognition of her work in 2001 one year before she died of lung cancer at 42.

References

1. Begoña Aretxaga; Joseba Zulaika (2005). States of Terror: Begoña Aretxaga's Essays. Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. ISBN 978-1-877802-57-7.
2. Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good (2008). Postcolonial Disorders. University of California Press. p. 419. ISBN 978-0-520-25224-0.
3. "Begoña Aretxaga, antropóloga". El País. January 3, 2003. p. 1. Archived from the original on March 24, 2020. Retrieved December 4, 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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