Abstract

LAZZARI, Axel et al. Cleavages, ritual risk and a new historiographical horizon: The First Congress of History of Argentine Anthropology. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2023, vol.16, n.1, pp.113-126. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v16.n1.39238.

In this paper we examine the First Congress of History of Argentine Anthropology, held in Buenos Aires in November 2018, from a double perspective: a symptomatic space of the cleavages of an anthropological field and a ritual of interaction with effects of communalization. Based on the assumption that the transformations in the discipline and the profession correlate with a process of institutional expansion and complexity, we maintain that in the congress these transformations are expressed as discussions and incidents that, however, do not put communalization at ritual risk. We examine the instances in which tensions are evinced between subdisciplinary traditions, between anthropologists and subjects of study, between academia and “application”, and even, regarding the metadiscursive consensus about the history of anthropology. All considered, we suggest that the historiography of the discipline is starting to explore new paths and themes that correlate with an anthropological field that reorients its practices and demands for recognition towards a broader space than the exclusively academic one.

Keywords : Argentine anthropology; Transformations; Cleavages; Interaction ritual; Historicization.

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