The critical nature of Anthropology, between conceptual commonplaces and other twists

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https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v1n1.11

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critical anthropology, universities

Abstract

The problems mentioned in [Gustavo Lins Ribeiro's] work stem from changes in the discipline itself in the face of other modes of analysis such as cultural, postcolonial, gender, and science and technology studies, which seem to have appropriated concepts such as culture and an apparently sui generis application of ethnographic methodology, which, in terms of public knowledge and intellectual fashions, seem to be in a moment of growth in the face of the apparent decline of anthropology as a discipline.

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Author Biography

  • Pablo Gerardo Wright, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

    He is Ph.D. in Anthropology (Temple University), Senior Researcher of the National Council of Scientific Research of Argentina, Professor of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Buenos Aires, Director of the Ethnology Section of the Institute of Anthropological Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UBA, coordinator in this Section of the Culturalia team of applied anthropology, member of the Academic Committee of the Master in Social Anthropology of flacso Argentina.

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Published

2018-03-22

How to Cite

The critical nature of Anthropology, between conceptual commonplaces and other twists. (2018). Encartes, 1(1), 59-66. https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v1n1.11