Articles about "challenges of anthropology"

Coloquios interdisciplinarios

Comment to the colloquium "Global turn to the right and the relevance of anthropology" by
  • Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
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  • Claudio Lomnitz

Keywords: challenges of anthropology, teaching, neoliberalism.

LThe first temptation that our discipline would have to avoid is to feel that it was always right, and that everything was said or predicted by past generations. Such an attitude will do little to enhance the political or cultural role of anthropology, however gratifying it may be to adopt such an attitude, especially for the elderly, that many times we feel the need to be right about something. . On the contrary, it will be necessary to change practices, routines and common places of our field, and especially in its teaching; Only in this way can we once again deserve a worthy place in the public debate.