Anthropologies in the extreme south: From silencing to outburst

Summary

Based on the review of the work of anthropologists in Chile, this article propose to reflect on the disciplinary drifts throughout its history, the difficulties and challenges to become a critical Anthropology committed to diversity and otherness. It is proposed that even when Anthropology suffers its dismantling during the dictatorship years, as of the social outbreak of October 18, 2019, the work of the discipline gains in reflexivity, visibility, and critical positioning. The text is organized around the main thematic knots that have accompanied our discipline: memory and subalternity; People of the Earth; feminism and dissent; heterotopias in heritage; ecology. It concludes with the challenges for the consolidation of a critical anthropology committed to the transformation processes of our cultures: the question of autonomy; commitment to the public; critical otherness; other knowledge; the indiscipline of transdiscipline; the cosmopolitics of poetics.

Keywords:
Anthropology; ethnography; social movement; neoliberalism; Chile