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The proposal raises a critical reflection on the paradox that anthropology faces today in non-metropolitan contexts. We argue that possibilities for thinking about anthropologies beyond the metropolis do not emerge from the discipline's normalized interior but from its margins.

Paper long abstract

The proposal raises a critical reflection on the paradox that anthropology faces today in non-metropolitan contexts: even in a multi-polarized world, a significant portion of the dominant anthropologies produced in the peripheries continues to conform to the world-system of anthropology, which is hegemonized from the United States.

Rather than opening spaces for theoretical or political experimentation, these dynamics tend to reproduce agendas, languages, and problems defined elsewhere, creating a landscape of standardization in which, in substantive terms, the canon tends to be reproduced.

The symposium also questions the possibility of projecting common values for the discipline into the future. Such a project, tested in global spaces like the World Council of Anthropological Associations, silences and invisibilizes all the conversations that took place from the peripheries, which contextualize a unique international anthropology and propose to inhabit anthropologies in the plural.

Faced with this scenario, the presentation argues that the possibilities for thinking about anthropologies beyond the metropolis do not emerge from the normalized interior of the discipline, but from its margins, its institutional outskirts, and from intellectual practices that do not entirely fit into the hegemonic regimes of validation.

It is about exploring in those displacements the possibilities of imagining articulations without going through the world system of anthropology.