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Anthropology and the politics of alterity: A Latin American dialectic and its relevance for ontological anthropologies

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Lazar, Sian·2022·Anthropological Theory
DOI 10.1177/14634996211030196
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Recent anglophone ontological anthropologies have an important Latin American intellectual and political history that is rarely fully acknowledged. This article outlines some of that history, arguing that debates about the politics of this ?ontological turn? should be read in the context of a tension between political economy and cosmological approaches that have been a feature of Latin American anthropology in some form since the early 20th century, and that are deeply implicated in histories of conquest and colonialism, including internal colonialism. This conceptual history helps to explain both the desire of some scholars to avoid a certain kind of politicisation and the argument that methodological and theoretical innovation within anthropology is political in itself. But it also means that ontological anthropology encounters some of the same challenges faced by indigenous movements confronted with similar choices.

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Authors
Lazar, S.
Affiliations
University of Cambridge (GB)
Corresponding author
Lazar, Sian
ORCID
Lazar, Sian
Venue
Anthropological Theory
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2021-07-25
Volume
22
Issue
2
Pages
131-153
ISSN
  • 1463-4996 (ISSN-L)
  • 1741-2641
DOI
10.1177/14634996211030196
OpenAlex
W3184874072
Semantic Scholar
115123af9a5039a9b8169f06c79bd72a103ac2ac
Cited by
12
References
56
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2
FWCI
3.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Anthropological Theory (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion)
  • Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Apollo
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Latin American Cultural Politics
  • Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Keywords
ontological anthropology, Latin American anthropology, ontological turn, political economy, cosmology, internal colonialism, colonialism, indigenous movements, conceptual history

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