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Ethnology and anthropolgy between academicism and application: analysis of social nad economic policies towards indigenous inhabitants of Latin America
The article considers the fine dividing line between the use and misuse of ethnographic material "to the benefit of general social development". It questions both ethnology, whose theoretical structures have contributed to ideologies of European ethno-centrism, and cultural anthropology, the beginnings of which are even more questionable since it represented official principles of colonial administrations and helped shape the foundations of policies of assimilation through which "modern" countries would "civilise savages".
