Since the beginning of the anthropology, woman has been excluded of the investigations. In the last 20 or 30 years this discipline has included the woman in the map. To understanding the national identity it's has to understand the social constructions of the gender One of the most important exponents of feminist anthropology in Chile is the writer and ethnologist Sonia Montecino. And one of her most important book that she has is "madres y huachos". Why you don’t identify yourself with our maternal inheritance? This book talk about of how configure the miscegenation and think about the chilean identity and how they constitute the female in the absence of the masculine and how this identity remains until today with these investigation the book helps to contribute to the feminist anthropology and to the chilean culture. For more interesting information: https://retoricasocial.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/madres-y-huachos-alegorias-del-...