Entre protestas, antropología y museos. Dos antropólogas colombianas que compartieron un devenir: Blanca Ochoa Sierra y Edith Jiménez Arbeláez

Colombian women’s access to higher education was gradual in the first decades of the 20th century. The National Ethnological Institute was established in 1941, marking the beginning of the professionalization of anthropology in Colombia. The Institute trained both men and women equally, accepting students from all over the country who excelled in high school and participated in its professional practice, fieldwork, and classrooms. This article analyzes the cases of Colombian anthropologists Blanca Ochoa Sierra and Edith Jiménez Arbeláez. I explore the feminist movement that made it possible for women to get into University during the educational changes that took place in the 1930s and 1940s. Afterwards, I analyzed their careers within the framework of the specialized training educational projects of the Escuela Normal Superior and the Instituto Etnológico Nacional. Finally, I addressed their contributions to Colombian museology through their practice as anthropologists. In this way, it proposes to recognize them as pioneers in these two disciplinary fields.