Los felices años de un aprendiz de antropólogo

Authors

  • Ubaldo Martínez Veiga

Keywords:

environmental anthropology, urban segregation, informal labour, migration, fieldwork

Abstract

Concepts such as “reciprocity,” “embeddedness,” and “social capital” have been the main tools for description and analysis of social relations sustaining economic activities in areas defined as regional economies or industrial districts, becoming models for successful development in Europe. Histori-cizing these concepts, stressing the concrete political agendas of the scholars who produced them, reveals them as paradoxical in that, though they are abstract, their main force lies in their social, cultural, historical, and spatial situatedness. This situation points to the awkwardness of “ethnographic realism” and the need for a kind of “reflexive historical realism” to enhance viable anthropological communication.

 

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Published

2016-02-22

How to Cite

Martínez Veiga, U. (2016). Los felices años de un aprendiz de antropólogo. (Con)textos: Revista d’antropologia I Investigació Social, (6), 55–73. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/contextos/article/view/15321

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