Abstract

PERDOMO-MARIN*, JUAN CAMILO. Ontological ramification: critical evaluation of contemporary anthropology. Hallazgos [online]. 2020, vol.17, n.34, pp.273-302.  Epub Sep 01, 2020. ISSN 1794-3841.  https://doi.org/10.15332/2422409x.5283.

This article presents a review of the ontological debates in contemporary anthropology. For this task, first, the historical and epistemological conditions that enabled and guided its rise will be identified; second, its theoretical ramifications will be characterized in an all-encompassing manner, emphasizing the common elements that bring them together, along with the particularities and disagreements that differentiate them; finally, a critical evaluation of its main exponents will be made, in order to uncover possible shortcomings and potentialities. This exercise, in short, will allow to understand what it can mean to do anthropology in the present and where its future tends to point.

Keywords : anthropology; culture/nature debate; epistemology; ontology; representation.

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