Of the Text to the Mirror. Search and Loss of the Idea of Social Anthropology

Abstract

Since the 80s of the previous century Anthropology had arisen what studying was to some extent a series of texts, the culture, the other, were here a text to unravel, read and interpret. The credential of anthropology was none other than be a theory of reading specialized in a world of diversity, or, perhaps, an expert traveler. The advent and fall of a post-modern look proposed that this way of seeing things recreated a critique of anthropology which had some suicidal and self-destructive. Proposal, as a result, is to locate other metaphors, hence the mirror, a very evocative and intermediate form of finding the point of contact between the interests of anthropology, fieldwork, and his own self-anthropological.