Abstract

KROTZ, Esteban. About some ties between anthropological science and human rights. Alteridades [online]. 2021, vol.31, n.62, pp.85-98.  Epub Feb 21, 2022. ISSN 2448-850X.  https://doi.org/10.24275/uam/izt/dcsh/alteridades/2021v31n62/krotz.

The article demonstrates the intrinsic similarity between the tradition of formulation of human rights, their worldwide promotion, and the defense of the victims of human rights violations of human rights, on one hand, with anthropology, the scientific study of humanity, specializing in inventory and explaining world’s sociocultural diversity, on the other. To this end, the existence of the same two theoretical aspects in both traditions of thinking will be first established: the tension between the local and the global, and their essentially processual character. Against this background, then, utopian elements, which can be found in both cultural currents, will be approached. The final short reflection refers to the existence of this subject matter in universities with anthropology departments.

Keywords : anthropology of human rights; relativism-universalism; processuality in human rights and anthropology; anthropology and Utopia.