Unlike all the others works concerning the history of anthropology as a single discipline in relation to a range of different traditions, this volume, Histories of Anthropology, offers a representation of anthropology at the plural. In addition to what is widely known, this approach embraces some disciplinary traditions that are still mostly unknown to non-specialists. The aim is to offer a privileged insight as to how the main traditions have been accepted, adapted and adjusted in different cultural and historical-geographical contexts, as well as to define the current role of the anthropological approach in such contexts. It is both a book of anthropology and cultural history, in which the discipline is called upon to come to terms with colonialism and decolonisation, science and ethnosciences, nationalisms and imperialisms. It is a book that aims to exhort world anthropology to lead by example, to escape from a hegemony that no longer looks like matrix of relevant knowledge.
Quali sono i motivi che stanno alla base del posizionamento «scientifico» che l’antropologia ha assunto a partire dalle sue origini e fino a qualche decennio fa? Ragioni conoscitive, certo, che, tuttavia, si sono intrecciate con esigenze politiche, cornici ideologiche, riferimenti culturali. Hanno giocato un ruolo la necessità di legittimarsi accademicamente, la fiducia in impostazioni «occidentalocentriche» e l’aspirazione a costruire un sapere di portata ampia, universale. Hanno pesato il coinvolgimento nel progetto e la proiezione del dominio coloniali. Fattori impliciti che iniziarono a prendere forma problematica in modo sempre più consapevole sfociando infine nella «crisi della rappresentazione» e nel mare aperto del post-modernismo, nello sforzo di «dare voce» a chi, nonostante tutto, continuava a non averne.
Per una storia dell’antropologia al plurale : Introduzione / G. D'Agostino, V. Matera - In: Storie dell'antropologia / [a cura di] G. D'Agostino, V. Matera. - Prima edizione. - [s.l] : UTET Università, 2022. - ISBN 978-88-6008-917-5. - pp. 3-42
Per una storia dell’antropologia al plurale : Introduzione
V. Matera
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2022
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Unlike all the others works concerning the history of anthropology as a single discipline in relation to a range of different traditions, this volume, Histories of Anthropology, offers a representation of anthropology at the plural. In addition to what is widely known, this approach embraces some disciplinary traditions that are still mostly unknown to non-specialists. The aim is to offer a privileged insight as to how the main traditions have been accepted, adapted and adjusted in different cultural and historical-geographical contexts, as well as to define the current role of the anthropological approach in such contexts. It is both a book of anthropology and cultural history, in which the discipline is called upon to come to terms with colonialism and decolonisation, science and ethnosciences, nationalisms and imperialisms. It is a book that aims to exhort world anthropology to lead by example, to escape from a hegemony that no longer looks like matrix of relevant knowledge.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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