Abstract

CASTANEDA V, CAROLINA. Ethnic Anthropology: Race in the Institutionalization of Anthropology in Colombia. Anu. colomb. hist. soc. cult. [online]. 2016, vol.43, n.2, pp.243-275. ISSN 0120-2456.  https://doi.org/10.15446/achsc.v43n2.5907.

This article surveys the introduction of the notion of race during the institutionalization of anthropology in Colombia in the forties and more concretely, in the practice of anthropology by the first generation of anthropologist led by Paul Rivet. The author shows how the ideas of Rivet's anthropology aimed at eliminating the idea of biological race imposed during World War II replaced the notion of race by that of culture, as well as the manner in which ethnic anthropology nominally interchanged race with culture. This text presents a genealogy of the first anthropological works which served as a basis for Los orígenes del hombre americano (The Origins of American Man). This shows how the idea of culture deracialized the anthropological discussion but re-racialized indigenous bodies. Looking at the model of anthropological study taught by Rivet regarding social groups previously labeled as Indians, the author concludes that the anthropometric and ethnographic practice was a violent epistemic path to re-racialization of the indigenous in Colombia.

Keywords : (Author) Paul Rivet; racialization; (Thesaurus) race; anthropology; culture; ethnology; nation.

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