Abstract
The text presents a journey through two of the great approaches that have crossed the
history of Amerindianist anthropology in the last decades. First, it considers the study of the
notion of humanity from an ethnographic ontological approach — lead by the structure and
the synchrony — questioned as a-politic, essentialist and a-historic. Secondly, it goes
throughout the dynamic approach, influenced by social history, interethnic relations, sociological and historical-political analysis, and diachrony. On many occasions, giving rise to
two parallel agendas, all of them anthropological. The text presents the pertinence of both
approaches in the understanding of indigenous peoples and particularly of anthropological
notions such as humanity, whose transformations would not be intelligible without an approach both ontological, dynamic and contextual.
history of Amerindianist anthropology in the last decades. First, it considers the study of the
notion of humanity from an ethnographic ontological approach — lead by the structure and
the synchrony — questioned as a-politic, essentialist and a-historic. Secondly, it goes
throughout the dynamic approach, influenced by social history, interethnic relations, sociological and historical-political analysis, and diachrony. On many occasions, giving rise to
two parallel agendas, all of them anthropological. The text presents the pertinence of both
approaches in the understanding of indigenous peoples and particularly of anthropological
notions such as humanity, whose transformations would not be intelligible without an approach both ontological, dynamic and contextual.
| Translated title of the contribution | Amerindian humanities in transformation: ontologies, dynamism and contexts |
|---|---|
| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 153-168 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | AIBR |
| Publication status | Published - 1 May 2018 |
Keywords
- Humanity
- Amerindian anthropology
- Ontology
- Dynamism