Abstract

LEVIN, Luciano G. Cuando la periferia se vuelve centro: La antropología forense en la Argentina: un caso de producción de conocimiento científico socialmente relevante. Cuad. antropol. soc. [online]. 2015, n.42, pp.35-54. ISSN 1850-275X.

Forensic anthropology has had extraordinary scientific success in Argentina. On the one hand, this discipline has developed very well in only 25 years generating scientifically relevant knowledge both locally and internationally. On the other hand, and unlike a large part of scientific knowledge generated in peripheral contexts, it has major social applications. This work describes the different dimensions of the origin and development of this discipline in Argentina, the cognitive condition of the field in 1983 and, briefly, its development until today, its institutional dimension, the existence of other research traditions and certain social dimensions which, we believe, are the basis for the success of this scientific discipline.

Keywords : Forensic Anthropology; EAAF; Knowledge production; Sociology of translation; Science and periphery.

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