Applied Anthropology/antropología de la gestión: Debating the Uses of Anthropology in the United States and Latin America: From Policy Ethnography to Theory of Practice: Introductory Considerations

• Autores: Judith Freidenberg
• Localización: Journal of Latin American Anthropology, ISSN 1085-7052, Vol. 6, Nº. 2, 2001, págs. 4-19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this set of articles, three anthropologists based in Latin America discuss the politics and practicalities of doing applied anthropology in Mexico and Puerto Rico �a discussion based in their own working lives as researchers �while two anthropologists based in the United States (Sidney Mintz and myself) provide some commentary. Our goal is to contribute to the "decolonizing of anthropology" (Harrison 1997): by expanding current questions posed in the U.S. to other countries, our intent is to transform what has largely been a discourse on a "native" anthropology (NAPA1995) into a "transnational" anthropology (Hannerz 1998). Thus, rather than a survey of current practice in applied anthropology in the Americas, this special section is offered as an invitation to dialogue, and a call for greater discussion among anthropologists concerned with the application of knowledge in different nations and/or regions of the Americas