Abstract

GUBER, ROSANA. CRISIS OF PRESENCE, UNIVERSITY AND POLITICS IN THE BIRTH OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2007, vol.43, pp.263-298. ISSN 0486-6525.

IN THIS ARTICLE I ANALIZE THE FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THE EMERGENCE OF "SOCIAL ANTHROPOlogy", a field of knowledge about society and culture where the political and academic climate converged in particular ways in the decade of 1960 and beginning of the 1970s in Buenos Aires. Distanced from indigenous issues and anglosaxon theoretical inspirations, Buenos Aires anthropology proclaimed itself theoretically and politically discontinuous from the established academic anthropologies in the country and abroad. I argue that the meaning and the practice of the discipline, defined as critical and marginal, and founded on a commitment with the destiny of its subjects and social transformation, was marked by theoretical, methodological, and thematic constructions deeply imbricated with national politics.

Keywords : History of anthropology; crisis; Argentina.

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