The field of the “center”, within Anthropology’s “periphery”
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https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2014.87751Keywords:
State, center, periphery, anthropology, political, domestication.Abstract
This article’s initial intent is to ask why the so-called “center” of our society occupies a peripheral place in anthropology. By observing cer- tain correlations and offsets between some of anthropology’s ethnographic areas and the discipline’s preference fields, we attempt to explore the effects of notions like “center” and “periphery” on the anthropological approach to State. In this way, we try to understand how concepts tied to the notions described above behave in contexts that are “displaced” from their traditional bias – as, for example, taking the “political” as “domestication”.Downloads
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2014-11-11
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Leirner, P. C. (2014). The field of the “center”, within Anthropology’s “periphery”. Revista De Antropologia, 57(1), 85-118. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2014.87751
