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Marta Veiga Izaguirre
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8987-3868
Vol 42 No 1 (2023), Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/ag.42.1.8363
Submitted: 30-03-2022 Accepted: 31-05-2022 Published: 03-01-2023
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Marcial Gondar Portasany, Xaquín Serxo Rodríguez Campos and Xosé Ramón Mariño Ferro contributed to the development of anthropology as an academic discipline in Galicia while they themselves became anthropologists. This simultaneous process took place at the end of Francoism and the beginning of a certain political decentralisation and benefited from the introduction for the first time of a subject of Anthropology at the USC in 1975. Thus, they took advantage of the here and now to develop their ethnography. It was about the topics of death and grief, health, applied anthropology and classical studies of the community (Gondar); identity and ethnicity, ethnolinguistics and the anthropology of local development, heritage and tourism (Rodríguez Campos), folk medicine, symbolic expressions and rituals of Galician culture, fairy tales and oral literature (Mariño Ferro). The sum of their careers builds a scholar anthropology of us Galician people.