Call for Papers – Dossier 50 Years of Anthropology in Uruguay: A History Yet to Be Told? Uruguayan Journal of Anthropology and Ethnography; vol. 11
In 2026, fifty years will have passed since the creation of the Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropological Sciences at the then Faculty of Humanities and Sciences of the University of the Republic. As part of that commemoration, we open the call for the dossier “50 Years of Anthropology in Uruguay: A History Yet to Be Told?”, for issue 11 of the Uruguayan Journal of Anthropology and Ethnography.
With this dossier, we aim to support an open and critical reflection process on the various aspects involved in doing and teaching anthropology today, both in the local context and in its regional dialogues. We are also interested in exploring how intra-disciplinary specificities and different thematic fields have contributed—through tension and dialogue—to shaping a disciplinary identity.
We start from the idea that these elements constitute a trajectory that cannot be reduced to a linear history, but is instead marked by impulses and setbacks, milestones and turning points, plans and drifts that enrich and complicate the analysis.
In this sense, the dossier is open to contributions addressing:
- Historical systematizations of anthropology as a disciplinary field at the national and regional levels, as well as chronologies or periodizations focused on thematic specificities in dialogue with sociohistorical and political contexts.
- Reflections on the relationship with higher education, the training of professionals in anthropological sciences and other tertiary and university-level programs; as well as the dynamics that have shaped the academic-professional training space we now recognize as “Uruguayan anthropology.”
- Analyses of the dialogue between anthropology and social movements, collective struggles, and the recent past, among other topics. Questions about the place of the discipline in society and its ethical-political implications.
- Reflections on the challenges of professional integration of anthropologists in Uruguay, participation in interdisciplinary teams, and the tensions between academic training, professional demand, and institutional conditions for practice beyond the university sphere—particularly in the development of applied anthropology.
- Essays on possible futures for the discipline from an open and critical perspective.
Deadline for article submissions: September 15, 2025