Abstract

MORA, SANTIAGO. THE PAST AS ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROBLEM. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2007, vol.43, pp.157-196. ISSN 0486-6525.

THIS ARTICLE CONSIDERS ETHNOGRAPHERS-ETHNOLOGISTS (ANTHROPOLOGISTS) AND ARCHAEOLOGISTS perspectives of the past. It is an attempt to understand how the models produced by anthropologists impact archaeologists´ work and how the latter influence anthropologists ´ views of the past. Although the text refers to general anthropology, it focuses on the development of Colombian anthropology. The use of ethnographic analogies that link past and present due to its importance in the illustration of the Colombian past are examined.

Keywords : Anthropology; ethnography; archaeology; ethnographic analogy; Colombia.

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