Abstract

CORREA, François. Anthropological Interpretations of the "Indigenous" in Colombia. univ.humanist. [online]. 2006, n.62, pp.15-42. ISSN 0120-4807.

It has been argued that the academic conditions and the mental and emotional habits of the anthropological communities of the world would allow a characterization of differences that express "national styles". Without ignoring their importance, the article discuses that the production of the Colombian anthropologists is determined by the national realities and the socio-cultural problems that face the populations with which they work. This conditions their objectives, the procedures and the results of their labor, projecting a certain epistemological orientation that they share with other social scientists of the third world. Illustrating the interpretations of different anthropologists about the Indian people throughout the past half century, it becomes furthermore evident how, beyond seeking to solve characteristic problems of the discipline, their orientation has gone toward the resolution of the asymmetric conditions that natives suffer, along with other social sectors of the country. Since the beginnings of the institutionalization of anthropology in Colombia, this has set a demand that positions the practices and speech of the anthropologists inside the national society of which they are part.

Keywords : Anthropology; indigenism; national styles.

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