De Gran Jaguar a Padre Simbólico: la biografía ‘oficial’ de Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
This paper reviews the controversy around anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff from a particular standpoint. I intend to question how and by which conceptual artifacts Reichel-Dolmatoff was enthroned as the “father-figure” of Colombian Anthropology. Thus, I examine the collective elaboration of...
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Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá)
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| description | This paper reviews the controversy around anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff from a particular standpoint. I intend to question how and by which conceptual artifacts Reichel-Dolmatoff was enthroned as the “father-figure” of Colombian Anthropology. Thus, I examine the collective elaboration of a life-history, professor Reichel-Dolmatoff’s life-history, based upon the exegesis of his published biographies and an analysis of his own auto-biographical attempts. My aim is to propose an “Anthropology of Anthropology” in order to better understand the relationship between Reichel-Dolmatoff’s life and work. I conclude with the argument that professor Reichel-Dolmatoff’s figure, contradictory since he arrived in Colombia, was dotted by silences and partial revelations which shaped his academic life. Meanwhile, his followers made of him a father-figure thought in terms of a totemic “Great Jaguar” through a canonic biography that oscillates between plausibility and verifiability. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bdad241262de4022b855482e8479a14d2022-12-22T01:35:39ZengUniversidad de los Andes (Bogotá)Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología1900-54072011-42732017-01-0127356010.7440/antipoda27.2017.02De Gran Jaguar a Padre Simbólico: la biografía ‘oficial’ de Gerardo Reichel-DolmatoffCarlos Alberto Uribe Tobón0Universidad de los Andes, ColombiaThis paper reviews the controversy around anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff from a particular standpoint. I intend to question how and by which conceptual artifacts Reichel-Dolmatoff was enthroned as the “father-figure” of Colombian Anthropology. Thus, I examine the collective elaboration of a life-history, professor Reichel-Dolmatoff’s life-history, based upon the exegesis of his published biographies and an analysis of his own auto-biographical attempts. My aim is to propose an “Anthropology of Anthropology” in order to better understand the relationship between Reichel-Dolmatoff’s life and work. I conclude with the argument that professor Reichel-Dolmatoff’s figure, contradictory since he arrived in Colombia, was dotted by silences and partial revelations which shaped his academic life. Meanwhile, his followers made of him a father-figure thought in terms of a totemic “Great Jaguar” through a canonic biography that oscillates between plausibility and verifiability.http://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/antipoda27.2017.02Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoffbiographyhistory of Colombian anthropologyanthropology of anthropology (authorߣs keywords) |
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| title | De Gran Jaguar a Padre Simbólico: la biografía ‘oficial’ de Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff |
| title_full | De Gran Jaguar a Padre Simbólico: la biografía ‘oficial’ de Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff |
| title_fullStr | De Gran Jaguar a Padre Simbólico: la biografía ‘oficial’ de Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff |
| title_full_unstemmed | De Gran Jaguar a Padre Simbólico: la biografía ‘oficial’ de Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff |
| title_short | De Gran Jaguar a Padre Simbólico: la biografía ‘oficial’ de Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff |
| title_sort | de gran jaguar a padre simbolico la biografia oficial de gerardo reichel dolmatoff |
| topic | Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff biography history of Colombian anthropology anthropology of anthropology (authorߣs keywords) |
| url | http://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/antipoda27.2017.02 |
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