Claudi Esteva, first professor of Cultural Anthropology of the University of Barcelona, dies at the age of 98
Claudi Esteva, cultural anthropologist and Americanist historian, died today, September 4, aged 98. Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Barcelona, he was awarded the Bronislaw Malinowski Award in 1994 -the most prestigious award given in the field of Anthropology.
Claudi Esteva, cultural anthropologist and Americanist historian, died today, September 4, aged 98. Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Barcelona, he was awarded the Bronislaw Malinowski Award in 1994 -the most prestigious award given in the field of Anthropology.
Born in Marsella in 1918, Esteva studied at the National Institue of Anthropology of the National Anthropology Museum of Mexico City, where he exhiled in 1939. He also graduated in Anthropology at the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico, where he was the disciple of Pere Bosch i Gimpera, during a period when he established contact with the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm.
He returned to Spain in 1956, and got the doctorate in American History in Madrid, wehre he founded and directed the Escuela de Estudios Antropologicos (School for Anthropological Studies) and the Ibero-American Center of Anthropology. He later became tenured track 2 lecturer of Ethnology (1968) and the first professor of Cultural Anthropology (1972) at the University of Barcelona.
Here is the conversation between Professor Esteva and his disciple Joan Bestard, also professor of Anthropology at the UB, part of the film collection titled 15 minuts amb…