anthropology

The Party Was Always Ours: A Study on Cheering Forms by an Argentinean Soccer Fanbase

Nicolás Cabrera, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Marx’ Theory of Fetishism

Juan José Bautista, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Presentation. Projections of the anthropology of biopolitics

Leticia Katzer, Conicet / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina

Diversity and Culture: Objectification and Situationality

Alejandro Grimson agrimson@unsam.edu.ar Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina Abstract: Anthropology has theoretically confronted racism and discrimination. The paradox is that once the concept of culture started to become widely accepted, it was also redefined as race. Another paradox is that the arguments for diversity and relativism were appropriated by sectors that promote discrimination. This […]

Back to the exotic

Antón Fernández de Rota anton@invisibel.net Universidade da Corunha, España Abstract: In this paper I intend to re-conceptualize alterity and the “exotic” following the Foucaultian archeological and genealogical approaches to l’homme notion. I aim to discuss the possibilities of an anthropology of the contemporary in order to create a critical project, taking anthropos in a nominalistic […]

Anthropology and cultural studies: between theorizing politics and politicizing theory

Inge Helena Valencia ihvalencia@icesi.edu.co Universidad ICESI,Colombia Abstract: To think the relationship between anthropology and cultural studies is a topic full of questions and strains due to overlapping fields, subjects and methodologies. For instance, both anthropology and cultural studies ask themselves about the relationship between culture and politics, but how is the relationship between the cultural and […]

Anthropology and cultural studies in Colombia. Emergencies, emplacements, challenges

Axel Rojas axelrojasm@unicauca.edu.co Universidad del Cauca, Colombia Abstract: This paper aims to sketch a map on the origins and localization processes undergone by anthropology and cultural studies in Colombia. To accomplish this, I will refer to their respective historical contexts of emergence, whose particularities and differences are found relevant to understand both projects’ objects of […]

Some quips on the cultural studies-anthropology couple in Colombia

Alhena Caicedo alhenauta@yahoo.com Universidad ICESI, Colombia Abstract: The relationship between anthropology and cultural studies has given rise to various academic debates dating back from several years ago. Not only “generational” conflicts have been brought to light fostered by the undisciplining social sciences. Furthermore, those debates have put on the table certain discussions on the situated character […]

The golden scalpel. A reflection about biopedagogy and anthropology of medicine, health and shamanism.

Yuri Romero Picón romeroy@javeriana.edu.co Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Abstract: We are facing modern illnesses requiring modern treatments and medicines. Our national healthcare system is inoperative and traditional medicines fight not to disappear. In the academic context, a “dialogue of learnings” is encouraged, but there is no understanding about the principle of complementarity. Then, how to […]

Doing Ethnographical Studies over Records on Past Social Facts. Rebuilding Monsignor Pablo Cabrera’s Academic and Religious Trajectory through the Records of the City of Cordoba

Mariela Eleonora Zabala mariela_eleonora@yahoo.com.ar Museo de Antropología FFyH-UNC, Argentina Abstract: Historically, anthropology has been considered a discipline dealing with illiterate peoples far away from the researcher’s place of residence. Also, it is a field where both the inquirer and the inquired were contemporary. Even though there were and are anthropologists who have used historic written […]

Interculturality Ceaseless Apogee —Some Critical Reflections from Anthropology and Philosophy

Gonzalo Díaz Crovetto y Mario Samaniego, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile