Another Anthropology is possible

Memories, university and politics from Misiones

Abstract

This interview was produced through a series of meetings between Ana María Gorosito Kramer —Professor Emerita and one of the founders of the Social Anthropology career at the National University of Misiones— and one of her students, Ana Cecilia Gerrard. Based on the memories of her time at the University of Buenos Aires in the seventies, Ana María analyzes the crises in national universities, between dictatorships and democracies; the questioning of Marcelo Bórmida’s hermeneutical phenomenology and the agencies of the students of that time, who deployed strategies to challenge authoritarianism and curricular constraints. Based on her long trajectory of research committed to the Guaraní peoples, she also analyzes aspects related to professional ethics, the place of Anthropology in the face of the advance of neo-extractivism and the importance of historicity. At the same time, the authors return to various themes, among them, the emergence of Social Anthropology in Misiones, the center-periphery tensions and the difficulties in facing an academic project from the fringes.