Contrapunteo de la cultura de las humanidades y los estudios de la cultura

Abstract

When the old certainties of the culture of the humanities have fallen (those of cultural citizenship, the equalizing power of popular education, the republican integration through the universal vote), and when cultural studies become lost in excessively abstract and delocalizing theoretical notions, it becomes necessary to review some Latin American journeys that transgressed the borderlines between science, cultural criticism, and literature. Perhaps the ethnography offers a relevant interpretive key to think the relationship between humanities and cultural studies from and onwards the second half of the 20th century.