Losing sight of Peru

Replica to Orin Starn

Authors

  • Deborah Poole
  • Gerardo Rénique

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v24i39.805

Keywords:

Orin Starn

Abstract

During the 1980s American anthropology underwent two major transformations. The first involved a turn into history. The second, a turn towards texts. While the first of these led scholars a long way towards understanding the specificity, functioning and concrete reality of the economic, political, discursive and social processes studied by anthropology; the second traveled an exquisite path of self-reflection and disciplinary criticism. When the two paths crossed they produced a salutary historical re-examination of the discursive and institutional origins of anthropology in nineteenth-century colonial and evolutionary thought.

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Published

1992-06-13

How to Cite

Losing sight of Peru: Replica to Orin Starn. (1992). Allpanchis, 24(39), 73-92. https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v24i39.805