Old Bones, New Powers

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ID2222653
AuthorsJean-François Véran (corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume53
IssueS5
PagesS246-S255
Publication date2012-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/662384
OpenAlexW2061006504
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited21

In the 2006 Wenner-Gren symposium volume edited by Ribeiro and Escobar and titled World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations in Systems of Power, the central question focused on the ways in which cultural anthropology was being challenged and reshaped by "transformations within systems of power." In this essay, I will explore two propositions: first, that the question can usefully be reversed to examine how the anthropological field is itself a key transformer of those systems of power; and second, that the idea of "world anthropologies" presented in Ribeiro and Escobar can be challenged by expanding it to biological anthropology. In doing so, I suggest that the stimulating pluralization of scientific production can be combined with the (re)construction of a shared world anthropology

Cultural anthropology · Discipline · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society

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