Krotz, Esteban, The Production of Anthropology in the South: Characteristics, Perspectives, Lines of Thought

In this article Krotz approaches the origin of anthropology as a scientific discipline which tries to understand the cultural diversity amidst a civilization which has tried to destroy this diversity. He analyses theoretical paradigms which applied during diverse historical moments, characterizes the peculiar traits of Latin American anthropology, particularly the one which refers to the fact that the phenomena it approaches is not something foreign to the scholars, but that they themselves are unavoidably part of what they are studying. From this perspective, Krotz analyzes the consequences of this Latin American trait on scientific production. He concludes that there is a need of specifically studying the great variety of anthropologies produced in this region, so as to outline a still blurry local profile based on their own antecedents.