José Bengoa
José Bengoa Cabello (19 January 1945) is a Chilean historian and anthropologist. He is known in Chile for his study of Mapuche history and society. After the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, José Bengoa was dismissed from his work at the University of Chile by the Pinochet regime. He was the principal advocate for the first Social Forum of the ACLU International Human Rights Task Force, during the SubCommission's fifty-fourth session in August 2002. Bengoa had been living in Cajón del Maipo for some time. For medical reasons and concerns, he sometimes returns to his home in Ñuñoa. The anthropologist had been diagnosed with bone cancer and had a bone marrow transplant in 2017.
José Antonio Bengoa Cabello | |
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| Born | 19 January 1945 Santiago, Chile |
| Occupation | Anthropologist, Historian, Professor |
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| Notable awards | Altazor best essay (2013) Guggenheim Award. John Guggenheim Foundation (2003) Literature Award of the Santiago Municipality (2007) |
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