This brief essay consists of a retrospective glance at the decade of the 1990s. Directions which were taken and choices made in respect to the Revista de Antropologia are evaluated. So also, the ways in which this anthropological journal articulated, during the decade, the theoretical and thematic tendencies of our discipline are analyzed. Emphasis is given to its historical role in fostering intellectual discourse and dialogue at a national level, as well as to the dilemmas, of an editorial nature, faced by this particular periodical during a period characterized by the proliferation of regional journals. Furthermore, an evaluation is made of the ways in which the Revista de Antropologia, in comparison with other periodicals, is facing (or not) the challenges posed by current processes of internationalization of the discipline.
History of Anthropology; anthropological theory