The village in the city. Urban echoes of an anthropological debate
The article aims to show the dialogues of the Latin American urban thought with a famous anthropological debate, that of Robert Redfield´s «folk-urban continuum» and Oscar Lewis´s «culture of poverty». The impact that Redfield and, more broadly, Chicago’s theories on social change had on the theorie...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/5398 |
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| Sumario: | The article aims to show the dialogues of the Latin American urban thought with a famous anthropological debate, that of Robert Redfield´s «folk-urban continuum» and Oscar Lewis´s «culture of poverty». The impact that Redfield and, more broadly, Chicago’s theories on social change had on the theories of modernization in Latin America is of course well known, as well as the works of Lewis. But it has not been reflected enough about the meaning that the whole Latin American urban thought has been developed, in the period that runs between the Second War and the seventies, under the framework established by that debate. And as the city had, in that period, a clear political and cultural overdetermination, reviewing the connection with that debate is not only the analysis of a case among others of circulation of scientific ideas, but the opportunity to observe, through anthropology, the spectrum of figurations within which the thinking about the «Latin American city» then moved. |
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