Clasicismo y génesis disciplinar antropológica: el caso de Julio Caro Baroja

Abstract

In his 1965 article on the Renaissance foundations of anthropology, John Rowe defined the discipline as, basically, the legitímate identification of differences among societies, and posited that anthropology emerged when scholars of the Renaissance idealized the societies of Antiquity and criticized their own ethnocentrism. By analyzing the implications of the argument in the history of the discipline in the l6th through the 20th centuries, the autor maintains that Julio Caro Baroja's career epitomizes that history, partly because of his education as an historian of Antiquity and because os his self-definition as both a historian and an anthroplogist.