Friday 28th April 2023, at 5pm CET
Program:
17:00 Welcome by HOAN convenors, Fabiana Dimpflmeier and Hande Birkalan Gedik
17:05 Keynote speaker: Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México)
“Transnational Histories of Anthropologies”
17:25 Open forum for questions and comments
17:30 HOAN Correspondents presentation: Ildikó Kristóf (Hungary)
17:35 Open forum for questions and comments
17:40 Patrícia Ferraz de Matos: presentation of Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism: Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology, Berghahn, 2023.
17:50 Closing and farewell words by HOAN convenors
Transnational Histories of Anthropologies
Please find here the video-recording of Gustavo Lins Ribeiro’s lecture
Abstract
Although anthropology is a transnational discipline, most histories of anthropologies are nationcentric. Based on my 20 years’ experience of debating world anthropologies and editing anthologies on anthropologies of all continents, I will argue for the urgency of generating a field of research on transnational histories of anthropologies. This would allow for exploring a much more complex vision of the discipline and to see how channels of cross fertilizations have shaped diverse epistemic communities. To do it we need to go beyond at least two other major problems besides nationcentrism: most scholars in the world do not see Western knowledge’s hegemony as an issue; even those that notice the existence of flows of people and ideas within the world system of anthropological production still have not developed a global vision on how the system operates. I will suggest a few research possibilities of transnational issues that will help to go beyond the current situation.
