The “soul” of Métraux. The intimate experience of a possessed ethnographer
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Alfred Métraux, Anthropology, Ethnography, Ethnology, History of AmericanismAbstract
The article portrays the anthropological trajectory of Alfred Métraux (1902-1963) as an intellectual itinerary that starts with his Argentinean upbringing and continues with his early anthropological training in France and Sweden under the tutelage of his teachers Marcel Mauss and Erland Nordenskiöld, and then with his successive institutional assignments in Argentina, the United States and France. Bearing in mind the contemporary studies on Métraux’s biography, the paper analyzes his personality and his work, his initiatory ordeal in fieldwork, the later stage of analytical synthesis, and his mature stage of engagement at the UN and UNESCO. Finally, a short unpublished manuscript by Métraux, written in 1928 for the Argentine newspaper La Razón, is presented.
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