Abstract

JIMENO, MYRIAM. NACIOCENTRISM: TENSIONS AND STYLES IN COLOMBIAN SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2007, vol.43, pp.09-32. ISSN 0486-6525.

IN THIS ARTICLE SOME OF THE DEBATES AND POSITIONS THAT HAVE CONFIGURED COLOMBIAN SOCIOCULTURAL anthropology since the mid 1940s are presented. The tensions between the disciplinary global orientations and their practice in the Colombian context are examined. In practice there is a permanent conflict with assuming dominant concepts and trends in anthropology, modifying, adjusting or rejecting them, and proposing alternatives. This emerges from the specific social condition of those practicing anthropology in peripheral countries: being both researchers and sharing citizenship with the subjects of study. Naciocentrism is a mark of style with blurry limits between disciplinary practice and citizen action.

Keywords : Social anthropology; Colombia; citizenship; styles in anthropology.

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