Contribuciones para el debate sobre antropología aplicada y profesionalUna aproximación a la cultura disciplinar de la antropología chilena

Abstract

Anthropology applied, professional or involved in public events has been subject of historical controversies in anthropology’s development. The "never finished, but always silent" debate around the discipline’s professionalization involves anthropologies from various countries. In these debates, anthropology reflects, for example, on the social utility of its work, on the contribution of the knowledge it produces or on its involvement in public debates. These debates express the always problematic relationship that, in different local anthropologies, has existed between academic anthropology and applied anthropology.Chilean anthropologists have been part of this debate. Over the last 30 years, anthropology in Chile has undergone relevant changes, but the development of applied anthropology is still pending. Applied anthropology continues to have low academic and social recognition. Previous studies have identified the gap between subjects covered by anthropology departments and those required by nonacademic clients/institutions. This research aims to contribute to this debate...