Compromisos etnográficos. Un homenaje a Joan Frigolé

Contains an interview with Adam Kuper, as well as translations of three articles which were originally presented at meetings held at the universities of Barcelona, Tarragona and Madrid in 1988.

This collective book is the outcome of the discussion between historians and anthropologists from different professional backgrounds and affiliations. Its nine chapters reveal the larger paradox faced by these Mexicanist anthropologists and historians who propose research with an interdisciplinary vocation: as studies looking for a common ground of anthropology and historiography are more developed, the distance between anthropologists and historians as a professional discipline becomes larger. This book is a commitment to an interdisciplinary dialogue and an invitation to a...

Este libro presenta al lector muchas paginas olvidadas en la mayoria de los manuales de historia de la antropologia. En el se recoge, como se lee en la introduccion, la reflexion sistematica sobre las sociedades indigenas de Mexico y del Peru, hecha por los misioneros, los politicos, los historiadores, los ensayistas y los antropologos desde la llegada de los espanoles hasta la actualidad. En este periodo de casi cinco siglos pueden senalarse dos epocas privilegiadas para tal reflexion.