ABSTRACT
This book constitutes a call for the intersection between history and anthropology to conduct research and, in particular, to look at the world through a critical tribute to inspirational works and methodologies on historical anthropology. This selection of works is certainly indicative of our own positions and desire to present dialectical methodologies for the study of human relations, showing the variants at play, trying to go beyond not so much the ambivalences as the dualisms (nature-culture, subject-structure, tradition-modernity) that form part of so many human phenomena, such as so-called identity, power relations and the emergence of modernity, with its many faces. The study of power is central to this work because we consider it one of the engines of history, beyond focuses that are materialist or symbolist, agential or structuralist. For this purpose, the book starts with a history of theories and proposals, followed by a discussion on methods and finally, an application of these approaches to the study of colonial situations and to the role played by systems of social classification as mechanisms for producing and legitimizing relations of inequality in very different places and times.
