Esteban Krotz He has a degree and a doctorate in philosophy (Munich) and a teacher in social anthropology (Mexico City). Professor-researcher at the Social Sciences Unit of the Regional Research Center of the Autonomous University of Yucatán and professor at the Faculty of Anthropological Sciences of the same university and in the Department of Anthropology of the Autonomous Metropolitan University-Iztapalapa .

Coloquios interdisciplinarios

Comment to the colloquium "Global turn to the right and the relevance of anthropology" by
  • Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
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Anthropology: knowledge and politics

  • Esteban Krotz

Keywords: Anthropology, public debate, de-intellectualization, commodification, universities.

Wn the first of my three comments, I discuss and deepen some of Gustavo's statements on the visibility and public presence of anthropology in Mexico today. In the second, I link this situation with the transformation in process of the science and technology system, which combines the refunctionalization and commercialization of the university institution with profound changes in the type of knowledge called science, and which I believe Gustavo has in view when he speaks of the current de-intellectualization. The subject of the third and last commentary takes up an idea of his on the ethics of anthropology and analyzes it in a somewhat different way.