La ramificación ontológica: evaluación crítica de la antropología contemporánea
Ontological ramification: critical evaluation of contemporary anthropology
Resumen (es)
Este artículo presenta una revisión de los debates ontológicos en la antropología contemporánea. Para esta tarea, primero, se identificarán las condiciones históricas y epistemológicas que posibilitaron y guiaron su surgimiento; segundo, se caracterizarán panorámicamente sus ramificaciones teóricas, haciendo hincapié en los elementos comunes que las agrupan, junto con las particularidades y los desencuentros que las diferencian; por último, se realizará una evaluación crítica de sus principales ponentes, con el fin de develar posibles falencias y potencialidades. Este ejercicio, en suma, permitirá comprender lo que puede significar hacer antropología en el presente y hacia a dónde tiende a apuntar su futuro.
Resumen (en)
This article presents a review of the ontological debates in contemporary anthropology. For this task, first, the historical and epistemological conditions that enabled and guided its rise will be identified; second, its theoretical ramifications will be characterized in an all-encompassing manner, emphasizing the common elements that bring them together, along with the particularities and disagreements that differentiate them; finally, a critical evaluation of its main exponents will be made, in order to uncover possible shortcomings and potentialities. This exercise, in short, will allow to understand what it can mean to do anthropology in the present and where its future tends to point.
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