Abstract

MASFERRER KAN, Elio. A field anthropologist. Cuicuilco. Rev. cienc. antropol. [online]. 2017, vol.24, n.69, pp.85-119. ISSN 2448-8488.

This paper reviews the personal, political, and academic experiences of a Latin American anthropologist who was born and trained in Argentina, and who then migrated to Peru, where he developed new conceptual proposals with regard to the Andean World. He later continued his academic experience and research work in Mexico, along with a brief but intense trip between Panama and Costa Rica. The author explains his academic experience regarding urban issues, and then moves on to cover the indigenous world and its related religious and symbolic issues. Written from the perspective of a field anthropologist, the author correlates his academic and scientific experience with an explanation of his social and political experience in the changing contexts of Latin America. Once in Mexico, he explains his relationship with indigenism, the ethnology of the Totonacs, and their contribution to religious anthropology, along with the dynamics of religion and politics. The author considers that this article reviews a set of perspectives, proposals, and experiences that do not end, but continue.

Keywords : Indigenism; totonacs; religious anthropology.

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