Abstract

KROTZ, Esteban. Keys for a Stylistics of Brigitte Boehm’s Political Anthropology. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2019, vol.40, n.157, pp.113-122. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v40i157.437.

This essay analyzes the anthropological-political work of Brigitte Boehm Schoendube (1938-2005), focusing specifically on her now classic book, Formación del Estado en el México prehispánico (Formation of the State in Pre-Hispanic Mexico), in relation to the debate begun by the Brazilian anthropologist, Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira, on the diversity of styles that exist in the discipline of anthropology. It thus profiles the characteristics of a multi-subdisciplinary, evolutionist and critical anthropology (in the anti-ideological sense), that is clearly theoretical and situated in Latin America.

Keywords : Anthropology of the political State; the State in pre-Hispanic Mexico; anthropological style; Brigitte Boehm Schoendube.