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AbstractOver the last decade, anthropologists have contributed in an important way to expand our understanding of social violence. The present text attemapts to explore the ways in which this understanding of the multiple forms of violence – structural, direct, symbolic – and their articulation within human societies can become grounds on which to build an “anthropology of peace”. Such an anthropology, however, faces at least three important challenges in its development: 1) defining clear objectives for itself, in particular regarding the meanings of “peace” defined within an empirical and cross-cultural framework, 2) grounding its action, often affected by emergency, on rigorous empirical data and an explicit theorisation of this data, and 3) finding a balance between practical engagement in the promotion of peace and the imperatives of critical analysis inherent in a scientific discipline. These challenges are important, but not insurmountable for a contemporary anthropology of peace and for peace.
Keywords: Hébert, paix, violence directe, violence structurelle, violence symbolique, anthropologie de la paix, Hébert, peace, direct violence, structural violence, symbolic violence, anthropology of peace, Hébert, paz, violencia directa, violencia estructural, violencia simbólica, anthropología de la paz
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AbstractAnthropology and Indian Groups in ColombiaAnthropological research on Colombian Indians has long been divided, both thematically and geographically, into two areas. Lowland Indians have been the object of " salvage operations " which have produced excellent studies on their world view and ethnoscience, while ignoring the economicand political conditions that lead to the extinction of native groups. Andean groups have been less studied, such research focussing on rural social structure and the impact of capitalist penetration, while neglecting how natives symbolically represent their world to themselves. Yet such < systems of representation " play an important role in present-day peasant movements of this region.
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Objects and methods are among the factors that do explain the differentiation between the disciplines of the social and human sciences. Many of these have yet adopted similar explanatory models : the philological one, the structural, the strategic and the neuronal ones. Such models do not only function as analytical tool boxes. They also seem to tell something about the very nature of the objects under scrutiny. Considering such an assessment and moving ahead of it enables us to reconsider major issues which appear to be strongly shared by such different disciplines as linguistics, anthropology and ethnomusicology. The notions of activity, action or practice, and the complex notion of meaning consequently acquire a renewed understanding.
Keywords: Alvarez-Pereyre, épistémologie, linguistique, anthropologie, ethnomusicologie, paradigmes explicatifs, action, signification, Alvarez-Pereyre, Epistemology, Linguistics, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Interpretative Models, Action, Meaning, Alvarez-Pereyre, epistemología, lingüística, antropología, etnomusicología, paradigmas explicativos, acción, significado