Rita Segato was born in Buenos Aires and studied anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires. With the state of siege in 1974, she moved to Caracas, where she continued her studies and worked as a researcher with Isabel Aretz, a pioneer of Latin American ethnomusicology. She then enrolled at Queen's University in Northern Ireland, where she received her M.A. degree. Northern Ireland, where she received her M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology in 1984. Since 1985 he has worked at the University of Brasilia, in the Department of Anthropology and in the Graduate Program of Bioethics and Human Rights. She has received awards and recognitions in several Latin American countries. She is the author of books on anthropology, gender analysis, race and racism, psychoanalysis and war, among many other topics. psychoanalysis and war, among many other topics. Among her publications are Las estructuras elementales de la violencia. Essays on gender between anthropology, psychoanalysis and human rights (2003, 2010); The nation and its others: race, ethnicity and religious diversity in times of identity politics (2007); The critique of coloniality in eight essays and an anthropology on demand (2013); Writing on the body of the murdered women in Ciudad Juarez (2014); The war against women (2018) and Counter-pedagogies of cruelty (2018).