Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología (Jun 2006)
Naturalizando privilegios: sobre la escritura y la formación antropológica
Abstract
This essay highlights the articulation of a series of privileges around training and writing practices among anthropologists in Colombia. The essay examines, on one hand, the posture adopted by certain anthropologists as owners of texts, which leads them to create obstacles their circulation, and the political implications such a posture. On the other, the article questions about the introduction of graduate anthropology programs in the country based the undermining of the relevance and specifi of existing undergraduate education.