God, Fatherland, Home: Revealing the Dark Side of Our Anthropological Virtue

The article uses ethnographic research on right‐wing anti‐government movements in Bolivia conducted at the height of social conflict and cultural violence in 2008 and 2009 to reflect more generally on the relationship between anthropological research, ethical commitment, and the politics of knowledge. The article first describes the relevant epistemological and political contexts in which engaged anthropology emerged as an important disciplinary current. It then goes on to consider how and why the author's research on right‐wing political practice in Bolivia diverged from the disciplinary expectations of engaged anthropology. After reflecting on the implications of this shift, the article concludes by arguing for a methodological recalibration that allows anthropologists to take seriously the ideologies and cultural logics of contemporary right‐wing mobilization, particularly social and political movements that are animated by what Edmund Burke described as ‘just prejudice’

Saberes, concepciones y prácticas acerca de los actores que gestionan las políticas culturales de lectura

En este artículo propongo considerar a los actores que gestionan las políticas culturales a la lectura como parte de "los nuevos intermediarios culturales". Los intermediarios a la lectura se adscriben como mediadores y también bajo otros términos que se relacionan con los saberes, concepciones y quehaceres cotidianos que llevan a cabo, a saber: referentes, bibliotecarios, jefes/as, empleados, mediadores, referencistas, voluntarios, integrantes, miembros y directivos de asociaciones. Sin embargo, éstos intermediarios tienen inscripciones y reconocimientos económicos y simbólicos sumamente diferentes y desiguales, adscribirlos bajo la denominación de mediadores reduce la relevancia que reviste su tratamiento en la institucionalidad del sector cultural.In this article I propose to considerer people who manage the cultural politics of reading as part of "new cultural intermediaries". These intermediaries are designated as mediators and also as under others terms that relate them to knowledge, conceptions and the daily tasks they carried out, like librarians, heads/as, employees, mediators, reference librarian, volunteers, members, and associations officers. However, these intermediaries have inscriptions and economic and symbolic recognition vastly different and unequal, assign them as mediators reduces the relevance of their institutional rol in the cultural sector