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From the Study of Indigenous Cultures to the Critics of Modernity: On Anthropology made in Colombia

Histories of Anthropology, Page: 403-437
2023
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Based on a critical assessment of the historiography of Colombian anthropology, this chapter provides a synthesis of the history of anthropology made in Colombia, defined as “that produced in the country, and which constitutes an empirical, methodological or conceptual contribution to new anthropological works or debates in Colombia”. The history of Colombian anthropology can be divided into three periods. The first goes from 1941 till 1968 and coincides with the birth and the institutional and academic consolidation of the disciplinary field. The second goes from 1968 till 1991: these years are marked by the rise and fall of the season of social and political commitment of anthropologists alongside social movements and subordinate subjects. The third and last period begins in 1991 and arrives to the present days. It starts with the launch of a broad project of a critical anthropology of modernity seen from the Latin American perspective, and with definitive professionalisation of the discipline, in a socio-political national context strongly characterised, however, by the resurgence of internal armed conflict and by the penetration of neoliberal logic even within university institutions. This chapter explores continuities and discontinuities between these three periods, from the point of view of the institutionalisation of anthropology, privileged research fields and methodologies, positioning end political engagement of researchers with respect to the situation and the struggles of the people who are the subjects of their researches and, more generally, the relationships of the history of the anthropology made in Colombia with the history of the conflicts and debates about national identity, citizenship, social justice and democratic participation in this country.

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