Antropología e Historia. Por un diálogo interdisciplinar

Abstract

The relations between anthropology and history have been characterized by the rivalry in the definition of their limits, but also by a continuous process of mutual borrowings. Among the anthropologists emerged ethnohistory -the history from the foreign, usually european records, rather than our own history- and among the historians arose historical anthropology -devoted to the ethnic minorities or to the more devoid levels of mental conscíence. Finally, when anthropologists tried to make their own history they were forced -as it is also the case with other scientists- to resort to professional historiography as the only way to look at themselves preventing the presentist tribalism.