Lhe problems mentioned in [Gustavo Lins Ribeiro's] work stem from changes in the discipline itself in the face of other modes of analysis such as cultural, postcolonial, gender, and science and technology studies, which seem to have appropriated concepts such as culture and an apparently sui generis application of ethnographic methodology, which, in terms of public knowledge and intellectual fashions, seem to be in a moment of growth in the face of the apparent decline of anthropology as a discipline.

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.