Neo-evolutionism and cultural ecology. The Argentine Renovation of Anthropology Teaching under the influence of Julian Steward
The introduction of the U.S. anthropologist Julian Haynes Steward (1902-1972) to the Argentine courses of Anthropology in the mid-50´s, launched a process of partial renovation in Argentine anthropology. His materialistic, neoevolutionist, and ecological scope applied to Archeology and, later, to wh...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/5464 |
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| Sumario: | The introduction of the U.S. anthropologist Julian Haynes Steward (1902-1972) to the Argentine courses of Anthropology in the mid-50´s, launched a process of partial renovation in Argentine anthropology. His materialistic, neoevolutionist, and ecological scope applied to Archeology and, later, to what would become Social Anthropology, differed from more established views such as German historical-cultural theory led by Italian anthropologist José Imbelloni and Austrian archaeologist Oswald Menghin. This paper describes and analyzes the arrival of Steward’s ideas to some Argentine schools of Anthropology (Córdoba, Litoral/Rosario and La Plata) in the late 40s, by means of archaeologist Alberto Rex González, a Columbia Ph.D. and one of Steward’s students. In fact, studying Steward’s diffusion in Argentina may cast some light upon the ways in which concepts and theoretical frameworks born in metropolitan anthropologies, reach peripheral contexts and are transformed within their new academic homes. |
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