Critical anthropology and indigenous militancy in the seventies

An Interview with Andrés Serbin

  • Inés Aprea Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. La Plata, Argentina.
  • Diana Lenton Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, CONICET. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Esteban Padin Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • M. Victoria Pierini Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Mariana Videla Manzo Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Keywords: Critical anthropology, Indigenous organizations, Villero movement, Latin America, 1970s

Abstract

This work is the result of the interview conducted with Andrés Serbin, in June 2023 in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. The author reviews the beginnings of his academic career, crossed by the political and social context of the 1970s. In his story he points out his first fieldwork, the critical reconfiguration of anthropology and the connection with an emerging set of indigenous’ organizations. The interviewee mentions the ways, novel for the time, of building relationships with popular groups, in the context of high political-social conflict. The situation and the confluence between militancy and research forced the author to go into exile and, for this reason, he describes the anthropological exercise in a Latin American key. The author's voice is complemented and enriched with a set of photographs taken by himself throughout his fieldwork.

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Published
2024-11-06
How to Cite
Aprea, I., Lenton, D., Padin, E., Pierini, M. V., & Videla Manzo, M. (2024). Critical anthropology and indigenous militancy in the seventies. Cuadernos De antropología Social, (60), 257-272. https://doi.org/10.34096/cas.i60.15725