Paper short abstract:

This paper is a balance of the WAN collaborative encounter. I will address the following: 1)the dynamics of the communicative practice, 2) heteroglossia and politics in the situated practices of anthropology, and 3) anthropological imagination, plural epistemologies and communication.

Paper long abstract:

The World Anthropologies Network project has several years of life already. It has brought together into a fruitful conversation a small (although active and increasing) number of worldwide anthropologists. In this paper I whish to make a balance of our collaborative encounter. I will attempt to address the following issues:

1) The dynamics of the communicative practice: its technicalities, its growth patterns, the limits encountered and the emerging possibilities. 2) Heteroglossia and politics in the situated practices of anthropology. 3) Anthropological imagination, plural epistemologies and communication.

After exploring these questions I want to raise a final one: Where is the present dynamics of our practice of a World Anthropologies Network leading us in the foreseeable future and how could we contrive to its growth?